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Bug 349064 - Should support importing into the workspace root
Summary: Should support importing into the workspace root
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: 0.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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: 369970 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-06-10 11:40 EDT by Mike Wilson CLA
Modified: 2015-05-05 16:01 EDT (History)
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Description Mike Wilson CLA 2011-06-10 11:40:59 EDT 
I expected to be able to find an "import zip" entry somewhere in the UI on the root of the workspace.
Comment 1 Boris Bokowski CLA 2011-06-10 11:46:18 EDT 
+1 - I find it unintuitive that you have to first create a folder that you can then import into.
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2011-06-10 14:17:58 EDT 
I agree this would be convenient.

Just to record the design problem here. The URL to perform an import is currently an attribute on a file object. I.e., the UI just traverses a link on the JSON representation of a directory to perform an import. Before any file exists, the UI doesn't have a way to discover the URL of the import command. We would need something like an "import into root" attribute on the workspace object for this.

Also interesting to note, Eclipse desktop also requires you to create a project before you can import a zip into it (unless the zip happens to contain an Eclipse .project file, in which case you can use a different wizard to import the project from the zip).
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2012-01-27 12:33:12 EST 
*** Bug 369970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 15:47:43 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:


https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html
Comment 5 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 16:01:12 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:


https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html