Awesome, thank you Christian, that worked.  I missed the part about escaping 
colons in the doc, but I see it now.

I have one other question.  What is the ${installFolder} that is referred to in 
a few places?  It says on the Eclipse reference page that it is the “root 
folder for this profile”, but I have no idea what that means.  Is this the 
plugin’s installed location in <eclipse root>/plugins/com.foo.whatever, or is 
it the Eclipse install root?  Is there a way to get access to any other 
variables, like the workspace location or anything like that?

Thanks!
Kristina

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Bourgeois, Christian
Sent: July-30-12 10:14 AM
To: P2 developer discussions
Subject: Re: [p2-dev] Using p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints

Hi  Kristina,

You shouldn’t use quotes (") in your action arguments. In addition, if you have 
colon characters, they should be represented in their escaped format (${#58}) 
since that character is the key-value delimiter.

It should look like:
instructions.configure=unzip(source:C ${#58}/data/somefile.zip,target:C 
${#58}/data/somedirectory);

Hope that helps,
Christian


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On Behalf Of Taylor, Kristina
Sent: 30 juillet 2012 09:49
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [p2-dev] Using p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints

I’m trying to use the p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints on plugin 
install, but I can’t seem to get anything to happen (and no errors are being 
logged).

My goal is to be able to unzip a file somewhere (preferably a user-configurable 
location).  A nice-to-have would be to be able to run some additional java code 
afterwards.  The native touchpoint’s “unzip” provisioning action seemed like a 
great place to start, but I can’t work out how to get it to work.  Here’s my 
p2.inf (I figured I would start with hard-coded values, and work my way up from 
there):

instructions.configure=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.natives.unzip(source:"C:/data/somefile.zip",target:"C:/data/somedirectory");

Both locations already exist.  Am I missing something obvious, or maybe this 
just doesn’t work in Juno?  Do I need to also add anything to my plugin.xml or 
Manifest.mf?

I’ve read (and tried various things from) all of the following:
http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/installing-configuration-files-with-p2-inf-feature-installation/
http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/installation-of-folders-during-p2-provisioning-with-p2-inf/
http://help.eclipse.org/juno/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_actions_touchpoints.html?cp=2_0_20_1_3
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6154367/a-working-example-of-custom-p2-provisioning-action

Since I couldn’t get the built-in ones to work, I figured I would try using the 
projects in the example, and after I fixed some compile issues due to changes 
in locations of classes, and added these plugins to a feature and an update 
site, again, nothing happens on install (I modified the code to log an error, 
then create a file somewhere, still nothing):
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/39856/129768/#msg_129768

This is unrelated to this particular mailing list, but in reality, my end goal 
is to create a server adapter that is installable from a zip embedded in the 
plugin, but I want my server to be recognized as a Virgo server so that we can 
leverage the Virgo tooling.  It’s really virgo+some extras.

Kristina Taylor
Senior Software Development Engineer
Integrity Business Unit

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