Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] XQDT MarkLogic Adaptor

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Haitao Wu <Haitao.Wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Gabriel,

I’d like to attend the meeting. Could you share the dial-in info?

We are using Skype. We will be max 5 participants:

David,

me (28msec),

Lionel (IBM),

William (28msec),

you

I will call you on Skype tomorrow at 18:00 CET

I noted this commit:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/webtools/org.eclipse.webtools.incubator.git/commit/?h=xquery-dev&id=0939b5644c864e23762d96fb73cfa56dd6de5862

The comment there gave a little bit clue about why the MarkLogic adaptor is disabled. What do you think of the scope of this issue? What does it take at a high level to make the adaptor work with the latest Eclipse/XQDT?

This was the last of the 3 (I think commits I made that involved ML adapter):

1. The DLTK 3.0 migration issued the first regressions (XQDT is built on top of DLTK)

2. There were also major ANTLR grammar changes. In this process I commented out some of the ML extensions to minimize the warnings ANTLR issues when generating the parser. (warnings in ANTLR translate to false negatives or positives in the editor)

3. Initially I left the ML adapter as is in the update site and pom.xml build files. But this issued errors in the build and installation process (dependency resolution problems and missing files). Therefore I have commented out the ML adaptor from the root pom.xml build file and from the update site. (this was the last commit you pointed out above regarding ML)

It looks many people feel this is blocking their development. Do you think if it is possible to put the old version of XQDT and the MarkLogic adaptor in a separate place (I can create a site inside MarkLogic to host them) so that people can use them while I am developing the new stuff? I guess this should work with the older Eclipse. But I am not sure about newer Eclipse builds. It might take a while for me to get to the full speed of developing the new stuff. I hope this workaround can unblock those people’s work.

The amount of work should not be large/ It just has to be done. That is:

1. resolve DLTK 3.0 build problems (not so many, probably only 2-3). That is in all the plugins that have "marklogic" in their name.

2. check the grammar for all ML extensions to check that all are in there and remove the comments if any. That is in sourceediting\plugins\org.eclipse.wst.xquery.core\Resources\antlr\XQueryParser.g

3. uncomment the building part in sourceediting\development\org.eclipse.wst.xquery.releng\pom.xml

4. uncomment the update site part in sourceediting\development\org.eclipse.wst.xquery.repository\site.xml

5. make sure that you align the version numbers of all plugins and features to 1.0.0 (ML is still 0.8.0)

Steps 1 and 2 are necessary if you do an independent release on your sites. Depending on what build infrastructure you set up, you might wanna have also step 4 and 5 fixed.

Once all 5 steps are fixed we can make a 1.0.0 milestone build and people will be able to install ML again from the eclipse update sites.

Regarding the supported Eclipse that XQDT runs on. We are currently supporting only the current Eclipse version. That is, since June, Indigo.

Hear from you tomorrow.

Gabriel

Thanks,

Haitao Wu
Senior Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
haitao.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: +1 650 287 2546
www.marklogic.com

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From: Gabriel Petrovay [mailto:gabipetrovay@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 5:49 AM
To: Haitao Wu
Cc: David Carver; WTP Incubator Dev list
Subject: Re: XQDT MarkLogic Adaptor

Hi Haitao,

Nice to have someone from ML again on board. Before you will be able to commit to the repositories, you will need to be an Eclipse committer. For this reason I have also CC-ed David that is the Lead of our parent Eclipse project (WTP Incubator)

We have a (almost-)weekly call Wednesdays (18:00 CET). Please let us know if you can make it.

Other information should be found here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/XQDT

Please go through it and let me know if that information is wrong/obsolete/bad/etc. That should theoretically get you started. And your feedback will for sure help up improve it.

You can also chat with me on Skype (gabipetrovay) or GTalk if needed.

Gabriel

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Haitao Wu <Haitao.Wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Gabriel,

My name is Haitao Wu and I am an engineer in MarkLogic.   Since Sam Neth has left the company, I am taking over the XQDT adaptor.

As you probably already know,   the adaptor has been disabled on Incubator recently. I want to make it work again.    While I know Java well and have used Eclipse for a few years, I am pretty new to XQDT and Eclipse plug-in development in general. I have used XQDT before but haven’t looked into its implementation.

I got your email address from Sam.   I wanted to introduce myself. Also, I am wondering if it’s ok for me to ask you a few questions to get a quick understanding of the scope of this problem.

Thanks,

Haitao Wu
Senior Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
haitao.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: +1 650 287 2546
www.marklogic.com

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