Hi Greg,
the configuration of the Ivy classpath container is indeed the only
problematic thing here.
You would have to ask the Ivy developers (I'm just a mere user) whether
these options
are considered stable. It's also a bit ugly to handcraft the string with
these options.
Also maintenance of the ivy classpath container settings is a little
uncomfortable. Adjusting
the container settings for a few projects is not a problem, but if you
have hundreds of them,
you have to search&replace the query-style options with regular
expressions in all .classpath files
and then hope that all the resulting options are still valid.
Maybe it would be easier to have some kind of ivy.xml.properties file or
something similar that can be
specified as the only option for an ivy classpath container. The
properties file would contain the options
that are currently specified in the .classpath file itself. This would
even allow sharing of the properties
among multiple projects.
Cheers
Carsten
Von: Greg Amerson <gregory.amer...@liferay.com>
An: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>
Datum: 03.07.2013 10:20
Betreff: Re: Re: Re: IvyDE adopter use-cases
Hey Carsten,
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:53 PM, <carsten.pfeif...@gebit.de> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> nature and container IDs should be as stable as an API, so it should not
> be a problem to rely on them.
>
Sure I can use them just as IDs. If they changed it would be hard to use
them for existing projects :).
What about the variables query-style options that are used in the
container
path ? Can those be considered API as well? So I could avoid using the
Configuration object as API?
>
> There's also a command org.apache.ivyde.commands.resolve, which can be
> parameterized with the
> project you to be resolved. Not sure if you can resolve a single ivy.xml
> (in case a project has multiple).
>
Resolving a single project is just fine, that is exactly the use-case I'm
using, when creating a new project.
>
> I don't know your exact problem with ResolvedPath, but you can also
> specify your ivysettings.xml
> relative to a system property, environment variable, a project location,
> workspace, ...
>
So in my case I need to use a path that is relative to the project
location, but its relative as in two parent directories higher. So I need
something like this ${project_loc}/../../ivy-settings.xml But this
doesn't
seem to work right now. I'm looking into implementing my own ${sdk_dir}
that would map to the correct parent directory and maybe the relative path
support wouldn't be required in ResolvedPath. I'll let you know.
>
> Cheers
> Carsten
>
>
>
> Von: Greg Amerson <gregory.amer...@liferay.com>
> An: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>
> Datum: 03.07.2013 05:04
> Betreff: Re: Re: IvyDE adopter use-cases
>
>
>
> Hey Carsten,
>
> Thanks for those pointers, that is good to consider, especially for the
> nature and the container. The resolveall is a bit much but would rather
> just resolve that single ivy.xml file. I'm sure there is a way to pass
> that to an existing handler so it only resolves one.
>
> But in general, me hard coding natureIds and container IDs is as brittle
> as
> calling an API, so I would prefer a real API that I could call. But
until
> that is settled what the API should look like, this method would work.
>
> That only leaves the ResolvedPath changes. I can try to submit a patch
> and
> test project to import ResolvedPath support for parent directory
relative
> paths.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, <carsten.pfeif...@gebit.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > most of what you do with the IvyDE API can be done without the IvyDE
> API.
> >
> > 1. You can easily add the nature by using IProject.setDescription()
and
> > providing the Ivy nature ID as a string.
> > 2. You can add the Ivy classpath container to a project's classpath
with
> > JavaCore.newContainerEntry(
> > "org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.IVYDE_CONTAINER")
> > and adding that via IProject.setRawClasspath(). Adding your
specific
> > options of the container is a little
> > problematic though, I agree. You would have to add all those in
the
> > right syntax to the container string.
> > 3. You can invoke the resolving e.g. by calling ICommandService.
> > getCommand("org.apache.ivyde.commands.resolveall")
> > and invoking the execute() method on the command's handler.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Carsten
> >
> >
> > Von: Greg Amerson <gregory.amer...@liferay.com>
> > An: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>
> > Datum: 02.07.2013 16:24
> > Betreff: Re: IvyDE adopter use-cases
> >
> >
> >
> > Hey Nicolas,
> >
> > Answers inline:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Nicolas Lalevée
> > <nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org>wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > Le 2 juil. 2013 à 12:16, Greg Amerson <gregory.amer...@liferay.com>
a
> > > écrit :
> > >
> > > > Hello IvyDE developers,
> > > >
> > > > My name is Greg Amerson and I am the project lead for Liferay IDE,
> > which
> > > is
> > > > a set of Eclipse plugins for Liferay development. In an upcoming
> > version
> > > > of Liferay Portal, we have integrated the use of Ivy dependency
> > > management
> > > > for plugin projects, e.g. liferay plugins (fancy j2ee web
projects)
> > that
> > > > are built using JSF portlets now use Ivy to manage jsf
dependencies.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore in Liferay IDE when our users create Liferay plugin
> > projects,
> > > we
> > > > want users to be able to take advantage of the good support in
IvyDE
> > for
> > > > dependency management, namely the Ivy classpath container. So for
> new
> > > > Liferay projects that are created by our "New Liferay Project
> wizard"
> > in
> > > > our plugins, I want to go ahead and automatically configure that
> > project
> > > to
> > > > have all the IvyDE goodness, (nature, container, pre-resolve the
> > > container,
> > > > deployment assembly configuration). In order to test things out I
> > forked
> > > > the latest trunk on git hub and imported it into my Eclipse SDK
dev
> > > > environment. I then went and built a POC for integration of
Liferay
> > > plugin
> > > > projects enhanced with IvyDE settings. During this process I
> noticed
> > > that
> > > > for our use-cases it seems it will require a few change to IvyDE
to
> > > support
> > > > what we want to do:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 1. MANIFEST.MF on the eclipse plugin bundle to export all
packages
> > (so
> > > > they can be called from 3rd-party plugins like ours)
> > >
> > > The API of IvyDE was never properly maintained. Adding new features
or
> > > fixing bugs often involved changing/adding/removing some classes or
> > > methods. I fear that if you rely blindly on the IvyDE "API", we may
> > break
> > > your plugin in the long run.
> > > Maybe with your input we can start building a real API. Only the
> useful
> > > package would be exposed. Only the useful classes. And then we will
> make
> > > sure that IvyDE won't break the API of these classes.
> > > We could start with the list of classes of IvyDE you are actually
> using.
> > >
> >
> > That makes total sense. However, I feel that you should follow the
same
> > pattern as Eclipse team itself. Put an API division between API and
> > "internal" classes by putting "internal" in package path, but still
you
> > can
> > export everything. Because in many cases you can't fully know how
> > adopters
> > will use the plugin and you wouldn't want to prohibit the use of it
out
> of
> > the box just because the packages were exported people end up having
to
> > fork the project just to use it for a specific release. If all
packages
> > were exported but some marked internal then those programmers will
have
> > already been warned by eclipse and if they choose to ignore it, it is
on
> > them if the API breaks in the future. This way we can have best of
both
> > worlds. :)
> >
> >
> > But regardless, currently in my first integration attempt I'm using
the
> > following classes:
> >
> > org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.IvyNature
> > org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.ClasspathSetup;
> > org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.IvyClasspathContainer;
> > org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.IvyClasspathContainerConfAdapter;
> >
org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.IvyClasspathContainerConfiguration;
> > org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.SettingsSetup;
> > org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.retrieve.RetrieveSetup;
> >
> > Here is the code where you can see I'm calling the ivy classes:
> >
> >
>
>
https://github.com/gamerson/liferay-ide/blob/94e2cde3e3e2b65587efc03b2247f5a984088420/tools/plugins/com.liferay.ide.portlet.jsf.core/src/com/liferay/ide/portlet/jsf/core/JSFPortletFrameworkWizardProvider.java#L300
>
> >
> >
> > Right now that code is all messy and just a POC. But you can see that
> I'm
> > doing 3 things:
> > -adding ivy nature
> > -adding ivy classpath container
> > -running "resolve" on classpath container
> >
> >
> > > > 2. Improved support in ResolvedPath.java class to support
relative
> > > paths
> > > > that use the "../" parent path.
> > >
> > > The problem with relative paths is that they got messed up while
being
> > > used within the java launcher. Maybe you can share your use case so
we
> > can
> > > figure out a proper way to solve it ? For instance it would be nice
if
> > you
> > > could provide a patch which is adding a test project [1].
> > >
> >
> > Sure thing, I can add a test project. In my scenario with Liferay
IDE,
> > all
> > of our Ivy Projects will live in a parent folder structure that will
> > contain some shared Ivy configuration settings and also a shared ivy
> > cache. So when I configure the Ivy container, I need to use relative
> > paths
> > for the IvySettings file and the IvyUserDir like this:
> >
> >
> >
>
>
https://github.com/gamerson/liferay-ide/blob/94e2cde3e3e2b65587efc03b2247f5a984088420/tools/plugins/com.liferay.ide.portlet.jsf.core/src/com/liferay/ide/portlet/jsf/core/JSFPortletFrameworkWizardProvider.java#L376
>
> >
> >
> > something like this for settings file
> > file:../../ivy-settings.xml
> >
> > and this for user dir
> > ../../.ivy
> >
> > So with my modification to ResolvedPath below it fixes it for that
> issue,
> > although that code would need to be cleaned up before I submited the
> patch
> > :)
> >
> >
>
>
https://github.com/gamerson/ivyde/blob/ca6db8f8b0f8b0b1c529a1e2aaaa565b37d9a5e2/org.apache.ivyde.eclipse/src/java/org/apache/ivyde/eclipse/ResolvedPath.java#L103
>
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > You can see that I have forked the IvyDE repo over on my github
> > account
> > > and
> > > > made a few commits:
> > > > https://github.com/gamerson/ivyde/commits/liferay-ide
> > > >
> > > > Several of those commits are just my hacks in order to build the
POC
> > in
> > > my
> > > > dev environment, e.g. setting up a tycho build instead of
ant-based
> > > build.
> > > > The only two interesting commits are the following:
> > > >
> > > > Modified the Manifest to export all *eclipse* packages
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
https://github.com/gamerson/ivyde/commit/29a4e2e9f4e27aabfe44f0227683a5ec20c8bc01
>
> >
> > > >
> > > > Modified ResolvedPath to add support for "../.." style paths:
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
https://github.com/gamerson/ivyde/commit/ca6db8f8b0f8b0b1c529a1e2aaaa565b37d9a5e2
>
> >
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to discuss with IvyDE maintainers on how I can get these
> two
> > > > changes merged into trunk. I can create JIRA tickets and submit
> > proper
> > > > pull requests, or however, you would prefer me to try to
contribute.
> > >
> > > The way to contribute code is to go through Jira. So it somehow
> clearly
> > > state that you do want to contribute your patch to the ASF, and we
are
> > not
> > > picking code from you with an unclear license. (You could probably
do
> a
> > > pull request, but I don't know where it would actually go…)
> > >
> >
> > Sure thing, I'll open JIRA ticket with the API export and the
> ResolvedPath
> > as those are the two blockers right now.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > Hope to hear from you all soon and thanks again for the great
IvyDE!
> > >
> > > Thank you for coming here discussing here ! :)
> > >
> >
> > Absolutely! and thanks for responding so quickly.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Nicolas
> > >
> > > [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/ivyde/trunk/test
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>
>
>
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