On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
The first is that there is no way to tell from "inside" Java which version of Lucene you have. There should be some top level class, perhaps org.apache.lucene.VERSION, which contains at least three variables, "majorVersion", "minorVersion", and "microVersion", so that a user program can check which version of the system they are using.
This is not quite true. The full version number is in the Lucene JAR manifest, which you can obtain like this:
public class PackageTester {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
JarFile jarFile = new JarFile(args[0]);
Manifest manifest = jarFile.getManifest();Map entries = manifest.getEntries();
Attributes attributes = (Attributes) entries.get("org/apache/lucene");
System.out.println(attributes.getValue("Specification-Version"));
} }
Where args[0] is the path to the Lucene JAR file. I'm not familiar enough with the manifest API, but it should be possible to get to this version number without having to know the path to the JAR file, as long as its in the classpath. I experimented briefly with the Package API, but was not able to get it to work using Package.getPackage("org.apache.lucene"), as there are no actual classes in that package.
We could easily store the version number in a Java static variable somewhere, but let's first explore whether the manifest information is sufficient. I'd prefer to only store the version information in one place, and the manifest seems the appropriate spot. We could also break this down into parts for major, minor, etc parts though it is parsable enough as it is, I think.
Erik
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