On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> Since I got some veto on http://markmail.org/message/feavtmfokcsaalpo >> lets cut all that in small peaces. >> >> The today's episode is about finding what is the war we are running it >> at runtime to list it in the core extensions (among other things it >> allows to check for available updates). >> >> Like the JAR packages, a WAR contains pom.xml file, problem is that >> this pom.xml file is not in a "stable" location >> (META-INF/<groupId>/<artifactId>/pom.xml) and I can't find any generic >> way to scan a WAR like Reflection allows to scan jars files from the >> classpath. >> >> So as a last resort solution I propose to include the extension >> identifier in the METAINF.MF at build time. This will give me the >> entry point I need to find the pom.xml and gather more detailed >> informations about the war to put it as core extension. >> >> WDYT ? > > So this means that we put our extension ids in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF to have > self-describing extensions. > > That seems a good idea to me. It also allows to recognize if a given artifact > is a xwiki extension or not.
Yes I tough it was a nice information to add to the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF for all sort of uses cases anyway. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
