Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF discovery of artifact and metadata repos

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott, repository locations are simply
represented as a URL. Since both metadata and artifact repositories are
pluggable via extension point, any valid URL could potentially represent
a repository. Currently the one way to find out if a give URL actually
represents a repository is by calling loadRepository(URL, ...) on either
IMetadataRepositoryManager or IArtifactRepositoryManager. Hope that helps
get you started...

John

Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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In prep for EclipseCon, the ECF team would like to
create a demo that 
discovers p2 artifact and metadata repos.  ECF has a discovery API
[1], 
now implemented with both zeroconf/bonjour and SLP providers [2].  We've
recently done an example that discovers update sites on lan [3].

So, my main question is:  for discovering artifact and metadata repos,
what is the necessary meta-meta-data? (data about location/access to 
repos).  Is it simply an URL, or is there more to it?  Pointers
into p2 
code desired...as I need to do that anyway.

Thanks,

Scott

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_API_Docs#Discovery_API
[2] http://www.lemmster.de/blog/index.php/2008/02/03/168/
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Update_Site_Discovery

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