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Bug 314136

Summary:

[metadata] Feature information on Installation Details not retrieved from feature.properties

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Equinox

Reporter:

Kit Lo <kitlo>

Component:

Assignee:

P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

irbull, overholt, pascal, pwebster, remy.suen, sgehwolf, stephen.francisco

Version:

3.6

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Installation Details	none
Linux Tools screenshot	none

Description Kit Lo

2010-05-24 12:17:35 EDT

I changed the value of the featureName/pluginName/providerName in the feature.properties and plugin.properties files and noticed that the feature information on Installation Details is not retrieved from feature.properties.

Problems:
1) feature provider name is retrived from plugin.properties
2) feature name is retrived from plugin.properties
3) "NLS" feature provider name is retrived from "code" plugin.properties
4) "NLS" feature name is retrived from "code" plugin.properties

Problem 1 may not be too bad as the feature provider is usually the same as the plugin provider.

Problem 2 may be a little problem if the plugin name is not generic and contains the word "plugin".

Problems 3 & 4 are more serious problems. We are not showing the correct provider name and feature name when an adopter is providing the "NLS" feature.

Expected results:
- I expect the Installation Details dialog to retrieve the feature provider name and feature name from the feature.properties file of the corresponding feature.

Comment 1 Kit Lo

2010-05-24 12:18:25 EDT

Created attachment 169691 [details]
Installation Details

Comment 2 Susan McCourt

2010-05-25 11:17:29 EDT

moving to p2.
Installation Details info comes from the p2 metadata.
The metadata generation tools do some kind of mapping, not sure if there is a bug here or not...

Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault

2010-05-25 14:11:29 EDT

Kit could you please verify what happens on 3.4? I don't think much changed in this space since then.
Also at this point this information is not read from the p2 metadata but from the feature folder / feature.xml and other files.

Comment 4 Kit Lo

2010-05-25 21:48:15 EDT

This is not a new problem. I confirmed that it was the same way in Eclipse 3.4.2. I just noticed where the strings are coming from by changing the value of the featureName/pluginName/providerName strings in the
feature.properties and plugin.properties files.

Comment 5 Andrew Overholt

2010-05-27 11:52:27 EDT

Created attachment 170213 [details]
Linux Tools screenshot

Here's a similar example with Linux Tools.

Comment 6 Andrew Overholt

2010-06-03 10:48:37 EDT

*** Bug 315598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Andrew Overholt

2010-06-03 10:48:58 EDT

*** Bug 315601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Eclipse Genie

2019-06-19 19:11:13 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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