Re: [platform-team-dev] Re: Team API

[Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

The plan for a Team API in Eclipse will
not be realized in 3.0 (see previous post to this mailing list for an explanation).
Although there is not official CVS API, it is possible to get the log information
for a file. Here is a snipet that will give you what you want.

IFile local = /* get handle to local
resource using Core API */
ICVSRemoteFile remote = (ICVSRemoteFile
)CVSWorkspaceRoot.getRemoteResourceFor(local);
ILogEntry[] entries = remote.getLogEntries(progress);
/* This contacts the server so an IProgressMonitor is needed */

You can then get the revision information
from the log entries.

Hope this helps
Michael

P.S. I'll drop by your poster at EclipseCon

Chris Wege <cwege@xxxxxx>
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15/01/2004 04:35 AM

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Michael,

sorry for the late answer.

>> Does that mean that there won't be an API to access the repository
log
>> (like cvs log)?
> We do not currently have a plan for this but if you are interested
in an 
> API, we are willing to discuss it. What are your requirements for
such 
> an API? What type of information are you looking for? How do you 
> envision accessing it (from a clients perspective)?

There is currently a trend to mine information from software 
repositories. See for example the workshop at ICSE
http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/
Also it seems that many of those tools will be integrated with the IDE.

I personally have an interest in analyzing the log information of a CVS
repository.
What I currently do is:
- Run "cvs log > cvslog" in the project directory. This gives
me the 
complete log of all files in the system.
- Use some classes of http://statcvs.sf.net/ to read the log file and 
build the data structures representing individual files and their revisions.

http://javacvs.netbeans.org/ would provide a way to directly access the
log and work on the repository. I was using this lib in Eclipse for a 
while but I couldn't connect it to the authentication information 
towards the CVS which is stored in Eclipse. Maybe I just didn't try hard
enough.

My proposal is to either
- provide an API similar to the netbeans solution or
- make the authentication information available. Maybe you can connect
to the investigated security model 
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37692

I would be happy to show you what I do exactly if you come to the poster
gallery at EclipseCon looking for "Process assessment with Eclipse
for Test-Driven Development".

Best regards,
Chris Wege

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