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Bug 311574

Summary:	Please make URL matcher more configurable
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Johannes Tysiak <mail>
Component:	Buckminster	Assignee:	buckminster.core-inbox <buckminster.core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	thomas
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Johannes Tysiak

2010-05-04 11:49:08 EDT

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According to the almighty BuckyBook, the <matcher> for the URL reader type currently works as follows:
- crawl the given base URL for <a href=".."> elements and collect them in a list of links
- apply the <matcher> element on the list of links

I am currently trying to use the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository in a Buckminster build (as probably many have done before). They do not offer a P2 repository, so I have to use a URL reader. I would like to be able to use a matcher. However the only "overview page" (in this case an RSS feed) listing all their bundles doesn't contain <a href="..">, but <link href="..">:
http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/search/atom?query=&type=bundlesByName

It would therefore be very helpful, if the search pattern used to create the link list on which the <matcher> is applied, would be configurable (e.g. look for <link> elements instead of <a>).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Hallgren

2010-05-05 01:00:54 EDT

Did you try using the maven reader and the maven repository?

Comment 2 Johannes Tysiak

2010-05-05 07:05:53 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you try using the maven reader and the maven repository?

Indeed I did. However, as SpringSource has a very "interesting" maven repo setup, it seems to be pretty much unusable with Buckminster.

Let me give you an example:
http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/bundle/version/detail?name=com.springsource.net.sf.cglib&version=2.2.0&searchType=bundlesByName&searchQuery=cglib

In order to use this bundle from the SpringSource maven repository, I would have to manually configure groupID and artifactID. At least the groupID cannot be easily computed automatically.

This means I would have to modify the searchPath in my RMAP for every single bundle I want to use. This makes the whole repository idea pretty much useless. 

Using the URL matcher would work, if the matcher was more configurable.