After much head-scratching, searching and attempts at implementing my
own UpdateProvider, I eventually came across
org.netbeans.api.autoupdate.UpdateUnitProviderFactory class which does
the necessary work to subscribe to a new update centre, the URL of which
can be parameterized as I need.
On 2018/08/28 16:57:14, Mark Phipps <m...@sucfin.com> wrote:
> Hi all,>
>
> I am building a multi-branded nb platform application with maven and I >
> want to parameterize the location of my auto update site, but I cannot >
> find a way to get the check-for-updates mechanism to work, unless I
have >
> the autoupdate url hard coded in the branding module's layer.xml file
as >
> below:>
>
> <folder name="Services">>
> <folder name="AutoupdateType">>
> <file name="update_center.instance">>
> <attr name="displayName" stringvalue="Update Center"/>>
> <attr name="enabled" boolvalue="true"/>>
> <attr name="instanceCreate" >
>
methodvalue="org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.updateprovider.AutoupdateCatalogFactory.createUpdateProvider"/>>
> <attr name="instanceOf" >
> stringvalue="org.netbeans.spi.autoupdate.UpdateProvider"/>>
> * <attr name="url" >
> urlvalue="http://starinternal/twinkledev/updates.xml"/>*>
> </file>>
> </folder>>
> </folder>>
>
> Is there another way of setting this attribute? I have tried different >
> combinations of nbm maven plugin parameters like distributionUrl and >
> distBase, but once the application is installed and running, it won't >
> do the check-for-updates unless it was built originally with the url >
> specified in the layer.xml.>
>
> Any help much appreciated.>
>
> Thanks>
>
> Mark>
>
>
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