On 1/16/07, Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott Green wrote:
> > Hi Sami
> >
> > On 1/16/07, Sami Siren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Scott Green wrote:
> >> > Thanks Dennis! Your methond should work.
> >> >
> >> > And I really hope there is one directly method say getPluginRootDir()
> >> > in the plugin implementation.
> >>
> >> I'd recommend taking path shown by Andrzej because IMO it's bad design
> >> to depend on plugin system from a plugin.
> >
> > I am not much clear about your reason.
> >
> > The getPluginRootDir() method mentioned above should expose the
> > (absolutely) path of xxx-plugin in the below example.
> >
> > plugins
> >  `-xxx-plugin
> >          `------ lib
> >          `------ conf
> >          `------ src
> >          `------ web (only for web plugin)
> >          `------ plugin.xml
> >          `------ build.xml
>
> Ok. Now imagine that all plugins are packed together in a Jar file (as
> is the case with Nutch). Is your method still going to work? Nope.
> getPluginRootDir() may still return some non-null value (not sure about
> that), but the resources are not available as files because they are
> packed into a Jar.

Well, why should all resources needed to be packed?
The built result may looks like:

xxx-plugin
  `--- conf
  `--- web
  `--- xxx-plugin.jar
  `--- deps.jar
  `-- plugin.xml

> Now, you may have tested your method and found that it does indeed work
> - but the reason is a bit obscure: the bin/nutch and bin/hadoop scripts
> add your build/ directory to the classpath, so that you can locally test
> the latest versions of the code without creating the *.job file.
> However, when you run your code on a Hadoop cluster your local build/
> directory is no longer accessible, and your method will mysteriously
> fail - or even worse, you may get a different version of a resource from
> an older version of the build/ directory found on Hadoop tasktracker
> nodes ...

If you packed everything into jar(s), it is possible that the jar on
hadoop tasktracker node is old version, right?

> >
> > Andrzej's idea is limited(?) since i cannot get resources from conf dir.
>
> Absolutely not - that's how the whole Configuration system works.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrzej Bialecki     <><
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