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Bug 321247

Summary:

[Help] FileNotFoundException starting infocenter

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>

Component:

User Assistance

Assignee:

Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, dave.henderson

Version:

3.7

Target Milestone:

3.8 M1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch	none
Patch version 2	none

Description Chris Goldthorpe

2010-07-29 12:27:08 EDT

I20100720-0800

Sometimes a FileNotFoundException is generated when starting the infocenter with a clean workspace. 

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\cs\workspaces\runtime-New_configuration81\.metadata\.connection (The system cannot find the path specified.)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:205)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:157)
	at org.eclipse.help.internal.base.HelpApplication.writeHostAndPort(HelpApplication.java:135)
	at org.eclipse.help.internal.base.HelpApplication.start(HelpApplication.java:61)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)

Comment 1 Chris Goldthorpe

2010-07-29 12:54:01 EDT

Created attachment 175514 [details]
Patch

The old code was was using this expression to find the metadata location:

new File(Platform.getLocation().toFile(), ".metadata/")

which does not look right, it should be using Plugin.getStateLocation() instead.

Comment 2 Chris Goldthorpe

2010-07-29 12:57:06 EDT

Patch applied to HEAD, Fixed.

Comment 3 Chris Goldthorpe

2010-12-16 13:45:01 EST

Reopened - see Bug 332694 - [Help] Standalone help with "-command displayHelp" not working

Comment 4 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-06-20 17:59:50 EDT

Created attachment 198297 [details]
Patch version 2

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2011-06-21 03:46:25 EDT

Chris, please also update the bundle version in the manifest.

Comment 6 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-06-21 11:44:19 EDT

Good catch, I have updated the bundle version. I'll set the state to fixed once 3.8M1 is added to the target milestones.

Comment 7 Dani Megert

2011-06-22 12:19:45 EDT

(In reply to comment #6)
> Good catch, I have updated the bundle version. I'll set the state to fixed once
> 3.8M1 is added to the target milestones.

I get API tooling errors now.

Comment 8 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-06-22 12:32:30 EDT

You must be using 3.6.2 ( and not 3.7) as the API baseline. The API problem filters need to change every time the bundle version changes. If 3.7 is the API baseline no errors will show because there has been no API change since 3.7, I will fix the filters to get rid of the errors when 3.6.2 is the baseline.

Comment 9 Dani Megert

2011-06-23 02:19:52 EDT

(In reply to comment #8)
> You must be using 3.6.2 ( and not 3.7) as the API baseline.
Ah yes. We (JDT) are currently coding for 3.7.1 and hence I didn't pump up the API baseline yet. Sorry for the noise.

Comment 10 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-09-15 12:46:50 EDT

This was fixed in 3.8M1, see Comment 6.

Comment 11 Dave Henderson

2012-03-12 14:01:11 EDT

I see this was targeted to 3.8, and not 3.7.1 or 3.7.2 -- is this because there's some sort of workaround for 3.7.x?

I ask because I'm seeing this consistently trying to launch org.eclipse.help.base.infocenterApplication within the IDE (using an Eclipse Application Run Config)... I'm trying to test some changes I've made to my help plugin, and I'd rather not have to rebuild and redeploy each time I make a minor HTML modification :)

Thanks!

Comment 12 Dani Megert

2012-03-13 03:31:27 EDT

(In reply to comment #11)
> I see this was targeted to 3.8, and not 3.7.1 or 3.7.2 -- is this because
> there's some sort of workaround for 3.7.x?

I don't think so. It was just not considered critical enough to be backported.