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[ecf-dev] httpclient 4 for rest API
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Hi Folks,
As part of our 3.6.0 minor release done last Monday (11), ECF
contributed a new filetransfer provider to Equinox/p2 [1]. This
provider is based upon the Apache Httpclient 4 codebase, rather than the
Apache httpclient 3.1 codebase, which we/p2/Eclipse have been using
previously.
Currently, the ECF rest API uses/depends upon the httpclient 3.1
codebase. Specifically, see the dependencies in
org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest bundle.
ECF consumers will still be able to use httpclient 3.1 fine, as all of
the necessary plugins are in our repo...meaning that since they won't
get those plugins from new Eclipse versions, they will get them from our
repo when installed.
In the med to long term, however (e.g. Kepler simultaneous release), it
would be nice if we could move the org.ecilpse.ecf.remoteservice.rest
bundle to httpclient 4. I've noticed that the httpclient4
'requestentity' classes have changed name (e.g. what was 'RequestEntity'
in httpclient 3.1 is now HttpEntity in httpclient 4). This means that
some of the API in org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest will have to change.
Are there committers and/or contributors that are interested in making
these changes to move the ECF rest API from httpclient 3.1 to httpclient
4...in the Kepler timeframe? Or are there folks that would like to
work with me to do it?
Thanks,
Scott
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=337449