Re: [pde-dev][api-tools] Remote snapshot repository support

[Oleg Besedin <obesedin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barys,
API tools at present only support directory
as a repository. For remote locations, you'll have to make it a shared
directory using OS.

I'd like to see a possibility of an
SQL server used as a repository - mostly to enable free-form queries on
the API snapshots and data collected by the Reference Extractor. However,
that's only a hope; we'll see if it materializes into something useful.
The "http" repository is not something it supports. Where did
it come from? Is there a description for it?

Sincerely,
Oleg Besedin

Barys Dubauski <bdubausk@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject	[pde-dev][api-tools] Remote snapshot repository support

We'd like to have a snapshot repository located on a dedicated web server.
My initial attempt to use this approach with latest version of PDE API
Tools failed. 

Q1) Is the remote repository support not there or am I doing something
wrong? 
Q2) Is such support in plans at all? 

====================== More details on what I tried so far =========================

1) Set repository location to my remote location in the control file to
http://myrepository.xyz.com: 

        <repository location="http://myrepository.xyz.com"
type="http"/>

2) I also tried to set this location value in the "Compare APIs"
dialog:

3) I debugged the validation code which currently expects only File.isDirectory()
to be true for the repository location: 

package org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.ui.internal;

public class
Validate { 

        static
public
boolean
folder(String dir) { 
                if
(dir == null
|| dir.length() == 0) 
                    
   return
false;
                File file = new
File(dir); 
                return
file.isDirectory(); 
        } 





-Barys Dubauski
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