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Re: [virgo-dev] Building a custom artifact deployer 
Thanks Dmitry. Please could you add any information that might be useful to Peter's bug (when he's raised it).

Glyn
On 23 Jul 2010, at 12:19, Dmitry Sklyut wrote:

> This is the same issue that I found a while back. Transformers just cast to abstract artifacts in some cases. 
> 
> I think there were a few more interfaces that are fairly central for processing and used by public interfaces but are not exported
> 
> I will find those references today
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:45, Peter Gardfjäll <peter.gardfjell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Glyn,
>> 
>> I've started experimenting with a custom deployer and I've just bumped
>> into a stumbling block.
>> It appears to me that an InstallArtifact is required to inherit from
>> AbstractInstallArtifact, at least judging by the exception thrown
>> shortly after my InstallArtifactTreeFactory has produced an
>> InstallArtifact (see stacktrace below).
>> I have only had a brief look at the AbstractInstallArtifact class and
>> seems to contain lots of logic. I'm not sure I would be comfortable
>> just extending it.
>> I'm getting a feeling that some code (VisitationStage?) is making too
>> many assumptions about the InstallArtifacts it operates on.
>> Should a bug be raised?
>> 
>> java.lang.ClassCastException:
>> org.eclipse.virgo.zipdeployer.internal.ZipInstallArtifact cannot be
>> cast to org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.artifact.internal.AbstractInstallArtifact
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.Plumber$1.operate(Plumber.java:99)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.visit.internal.VisitationStage.doProcessNode(VisitationStage.java:51)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.AbstractPipelineStage.doProcessTree(AbstractPipelineStage.java:68)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.visit.internal.VisitationStage.doProcessTree(VisitationStage.java:58)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.AbstractPipelineStage.process(AbstractPipelineStage.java:41)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.internal.StandardPipeline.doProcessTree(StandardPipeline.java:62)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.AbstractPipelineStage.process(AbstractPipelineStage.java:41)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.driveInstallPipeline(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:268)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.doInstall(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:151)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.install(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:123)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.deploy(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:187)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.hot.HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.deploy(HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.java:174)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.hot.HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.onChange(HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.java:78)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.util.io.FileSystemChecker.notifyListeners(FileSystemChecker.java:245)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.util.io.FileSystemChecker.check(FileSystemChecker.java:166)
>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.hot.WatchTask.run(WatchTask.java:58)
>>       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>> 
>> best regards, Peter
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Glyn Normington
>> <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Peter
>>> 
>>> Ok, thanks. I've raised:
>>> 
>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320368
>>> 
>>> to promote ArtifactStorage to an exported package.
>>> 
>>> Glyn
>>> On 20 Jul 2010, at 09:52, Peter Gardfjäll wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Glyn,
>>>> 
>>>> I guess I could make an attempt to write a sample custom deployer. I
>>>> don't have a toy example for Virgo yet.
>>>> What I have written, as part of another project, is code for
>>>> atomically deploying/starting/undeploying zip files containing bundle
>>>> jars (a "poor man's PAR" without scoping, pulling in dependencies,
>>>> etc).
>>>> I could try to adapt that code to the Virgo deployment interfaces.
>>>> I am currently on vacation so I can't give you a time frame yet.
>>>> 
>>>> The first step is to make sure all classes/interfaces that are to be
>>>> exposed in the public API are promoted to exported packages.
>>>> I'm not sure if ArtifactStorage is the only missing link here, but a
>>>> start would be to promote it and notify me when its done. Then I could
>>>> have a new go at it. When I have some working code I'll put it on
>>>> github.
>>>> 
>>>> best regards, Peter
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Peter
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, InstallArtifactTreeFactory obeys the whiteboard pattern and the deployer will pick up any that are registered.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your right that the ArtifactStorage interface needs promoting to an exported package to be usable by 3rd parties.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It would be good to collaborate on a toy example and then make that available as a Virgo sample. Compare [1].
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would you be interested in stripping down what you are doing into a toy and, with my and possibly others' help, getting that going with Virgo with a view to contributing it as a sample? (I guess the best way would be to create a small project on github that I could then directly access rather than sending zips around, but you can call the shots here.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Glyn
>>>>> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=315867
>>>>> On 9 Jul 2010, at 15:21, Peter Gardfjäll wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> as far as I can tell part of writing a custom artifact deployer for
>>>>>> Virgo is to register an InstallArtifactTreeFactory in the OSGi service
>>>>>> registry.
>>>>>> I assume that all such factories get picked up by the Virgo runtime.
>>>>>> Am I right so far...?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If that is indeed the correct approach, one apparent problem that
>>>>>> strikes me is that the ArtifactStorage interface, which is a parameter
>>>>>> of the InstallArtifactTreeFactory.constructInstallArtifactTree method,
>>>>>> is internal to the org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer bundle (that is,
>>>>>> its package is not exported).
>>>>>> This makes it impossible for me to write a bundle with a custom tree factory.
>>>>>> Maybe some restructuring is required to simplify the development of
>>>>>> additional deployers?
>>>>>> What are your thoughts?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> best regards, Peter
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