Auto-update (Ecplise-like) mechanism for JSPWiki plugins.
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Key: JSPWIKI-425
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-425
Project: JSPWiki
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Core & storage, Plugins
Affects Versions: 3.0
Environment: any
Reporter: John Volkar
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 3.0
Provide a means to enable a running JSPWiki installation to periodically update
its installed plugins.
The following properties illustrate the idea.
jspwiki.plugins.autoupdate.svn-url = xxx:xxx
jspwiki.plugins.autoupdate.period = never | hourly | daily | weekly
jspwiki.plugins.autoupdate.versioning = none | X.X.any | X.any.any |
any.any.any
jspwiki.plugins.autoupdate.doc-source = none | from-plugin-help | from-svn-url
jspwiki.plugins.autoupdate.doc-target = none | %p | &p Help (where %p is the
Plugin classname)
Mandatory plugin behaviors:
1) follow a Major.Minor.Patch version numbering scheme (via annotations or
simply an interface or abstract method on WikiPlugin)
2) invoke with param=help return plugin help as wikitext , or maintain a
standard named file in svn.
Item 1 allows a versioning update policy to be followed consistently.
Item 2 allows generation of a docs/help/usage page for the installed plugin
version.
Of course the attributes in jspwiki_module.xml (which become annotations in
3.0) should be respected (specifically min and max jspwiki version that the
plugin needs). *Possibly* this could be extended to autoinstall dependencies.
What I *really* want is a more OSGi like bundle scheme, but that may be
overkill for plugins (as well as perhaps being more complex that is really
warranted at this time).
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