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Bug 361222

Summary: [publisher] Provide methods to get actually included features/bundles in IProductDescriptor
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Tobias Oberlies <t-oberlies>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 361215    

Description Tobias Oberlies CLA 2011-10-18 04:49:24 EDT 
Currently, the IProductDescriptor only offers methods which work on the syntactical level of product files, i.e. getFeatures() returns the list of features in the product file regardless of whether these features are actually _contained_ in the product or not. This requires all users to re-implement the implications of useFeatures and the new 'type' attribute (see bug 325622). This is more complicated than necessary.

The IProductDescriptor interface should be extended to also offer methods on the semantical level, e.g. getContentBundles() and getContentFeatures(), which hide the useFeatures/type attributes. This should probably be sufficient for all users, so I would even go as far as deprecating the syntactic methods.
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-14 03:53:56 EST 
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.

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