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Bug 319630

Summary:	p2 does not discover plugins in subfolder of dropins
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Lars.Vogel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Lars Vogel

2010-07-12 15:56:42 EDT

Hi,

today I exported a plugin and placed them in a subfolder of dropins. I used the Windows XP platform. 

This plugin was not discovered after restart of Eclipse. Only after I placed them into dropins directly Eclipse found them.

I believe subfolder are supposed to be working with dropins and p2.

Best regards, Lars

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2010-07-12 16:02:10 EDT

What is the exact directly structure that was not working for you? There are a bunch of different supported layouts. 

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Supported_dropins_formats

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2010-07-12 16:09:53 EDT

I called my folder "website" and placed the plugins into this folder. 

Is this not supported?

Comment 3 DJ Houghton

2010-07-13 16:35:54 EDT

No, this is not supported. I am surprised that you don't get an error message in the log file. I get the stack trace below when I tried it on my machine. Please refer to the above link to the wiki page for the supported formats.


!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 4 0 2010-07-13 16:29:08.101
!MESSAGE Provisioning exception
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.ProvisionException: No repository found at file:/Users/equinox/Downloads/eclipse/dropins/website/.
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.fail(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:392)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:676)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.loadMetadataRepository(Activator.java:92)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.getMetadataRepository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:198)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.addRepository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:93)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.added(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:68)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.processFile(DirectoryWatcher.java:197)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.scanDirectories(DirectoryWatcher.java:160)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.poll(DirectoryWatcher.java:108)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.watchDropins(Activator.java:476)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.start(Activator.java:160)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:783)

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2010-07-13 16:46:27 EDT

Thanks for clarification.