Re: [platform-update-dev] Update Manager prompt for fields, send as Web

[Peter Manahan <manahan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any reason you can't use an
install handler for this ? Or perhaps web triggered updates?  

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update-home/doc/working/web-triggered-updates/web-triggered-updates.html

Thanks,

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Peter Manahan
IBM Rational Tools
Common Install
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manahan@xxxxxxxxxx

platform-update-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/03/2004
05:59:23 PM:

> 
> 
> 
> 
> In a future version of the Update Manager, I would like to put something
in
> the manifest for my update-package (not sure that's the correct word),
> listing some codes for fields that I would like the Update Manager
to
> require the user to enter before downloading and installing the package.
> 
> For example, some of the codes would stand for:
>  user-family-name
>  user-given-name
>  user-email-address
>  user-employers-name
> and in addition, if there was something unique for my package, I could
just
> pass a string to be displayed while prompting the person  for
a value, such
> as
>  'Your year of birth'
> 
> It should be possible for me to indicate in the "update-package"
whether
> one of these fields is required, or can be 'left blank'.
> 
> It should be possible for me to indicate in the "update-package"
an
> http-based Web Service invocation (either a SOAP envelope or just
a URI
> with parameters), and after the user enters values for the fields
needed
> and presses a button (e.g. "submit info and continue installation"),
the
> info is sent off, (along with date and time provided by the Java VM),
and
> then the download is continued.
> 
> The purpose would be to allow me to track who and when has installed
my
> feature.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> (IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA currently
using
> Eclipse 2.1.2, will build features for Eclipse 2.2 and Eclipse 3.0)
> 
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