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Re: [p2-dev] IRequiredCapability internal?


Pascal, in comment 3 of capilano work item 23579, you said:

3. Pascal Rapicault (archived), Feb 1, 2010, 7:13 PM
Only the following things will make it in the API:
  org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata. IRequiredCapability
  org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. director.IDirector
  org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. director.IPlanner
  org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. director.PlanExecutionHelper
  org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. director.ProfileChangeRequest
  org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. metadata.MetadataFactory

What's up with that?  Can you please provide detailed instructions on implementing an equivalent to isOptional() using getMin() and getMax()?  The javadoc present in the IRequirement class is just too overwhelming (I'm being sarcastic :-).

Also, if it's really true that IRequiredCapability will not be API in 3.6, can you also provide instructions on implementing equivalents to getName(), getNamespace(), and getRange() using IRequirement API.


From: Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 03/08/2010 06:40 PM
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This got replaced by the getMin getMax on IRequirement.
You will also notice that IRequiredCapability is no longer API.

On 2010-03-08, at 9:10 PM, Thomas M Houser wrote:


In "eclipse-SDK-I20100217-1031-win32.zip", the isOptional() method of IRequiredCapability was removed.  This is a change from 3.6M5.   Where did this go?  What should be used instead?


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Good point. The work on MetadataFactory needs to be done.


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I understand that there are potentially many forms of IRequirement. That makes sense, but that does not mean that the API provided by IRequiredCapability is not still useful to clients. They just need to be aware that this isn't the only kind of IRequirement. For example, we create requirements via MetadataFactory.createRequiredCapability(). How do we create concrete requirements without an API?
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IRequiredCapability was limiting in what it could express. For example it could not express negation and or'ing, and it could only described dependencies on something that had a namespace, a name and a version and we are striving to express requirements and capabilities on other things (for example BundleExecutionEnvironment). As such, to ensure for API evolution we have turned the too specific IRequiredCapability into an IRequirement.
IProvidedCapability is still API, but it is very likely that it will either be turned into something more generic, or be marked internal if we don't have the time to make it API.
As for IRequirementChange the reference to IRequiredCapability is something that we have still left to do (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=299506)

The situation of the API now is that we have tried to move all the types that we needed to see made API in a final package for M5, however we still have work to do to reach the final state for 3.6 (hopefully by M6).

If you have feedback, it is very much appreciated,

HTH



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I'm migrating from Eclipse 3.5 to Eclipse 3.6 (I20100119-0800). Can someone explain why IRequiredCapability is now internal in 3.6 when it was provisional API in 3.5? What is the rationale for making this internal? Why is IProvidedCapability considered API when IRequiredCapability is not? Why does the IRequirementChange API have a matches() method whose parameter type is IRequiredCapability an internal API?
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