Hi Stefan, thanks for your reply. Somehow Studio still has a dialog for the extension location when I choose Help / Software Updates / Manage Configuration. I am using 2.0.0.v20130628 which is M8 iirc.
To answer your question, I have developed editors for
* eDirectory
* ACLs
* Path syntax
* Identity Manager (=eDirectory underneath)
* DirXML-Associations
* DirXML-EntitlementRef
* DirXML-EntitlementResult
* password sync results
* assigned roles
* assigned resources
* resource history
As you can see, a lot of stuff is pretty specific to Novell / NetIQ Identity
Manager on top of eDirectory.
The ACLs and Path syntax editors are much needed for eDirectory though.
I will look into the dropins folder (have not used that yet) but an update site
would be preferable since that is a nice distribution mechanism.
Regards,
Mark
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On 1 dec. 2014, at 21:27, Stefan Seelmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On 12/01/2014 09:51 AM, Mark van Reijn wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Directory Studio is becoming an invaluable tool for most LDAP administrators
>> that I work with.
>> In the recent past I have looked at extending Studio to include value
>> editors for certain attributes specific to Novell / NetIQ eDirectory.
>>
>> From the source plus the information contained in
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSTUDIO/Value+Editor+Extension+Point
>> I was able to construct a set of editors, most importantly for ACLs and the
>> eDirectory "Path” syntax.
>>
>> Lately I have been looking at ways to distribute these extensions, through
>> my own ”Extension location”. This does not seem to function properly and the
>> only way I have been able to successfully add my own extensions to Studio is
>> to simply copy the jar over to the ”plugins” directory.
>>
>> My question is: does the extension location feature work at all?
>
> To be honest I didn't know about that feature. But a quick research
> shows that "Extension locations" don't seem to be supported sind Eclipse
> 3.4 [1], and the latest Studio release is based on Eclipse 3.7. I think
> the new way is to use "dropins" folder.
>
>> If not, then how can I contribute my extensions to the main Studio
>> development branch?
>
> You can submit a patch via Jira [2], then we can discuss how to proceed.
> What kind of value editors did you develop? Generic value editors can be
> put into the existing "valueeditors" plugins, eDirectory specific value
> editors should be put into a new plugin.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan
>
> [1]
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5704105/add-an-extension-location-entry-in-eclipse-galileo
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO
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