Add capability to reload IUs from defined locations

[hegewald]

It would be a great feature to have the possibility to force a reload of the available IU versions of the defined locations.

In the actual version we face a problem with new deployed versions of an IUs in one of the defined locations.
If we generate the .target file after the deployment the generated .target file didn't contains the new deployed version of the IU.

Until now the only chance to get the new version is to restart Eclipse and regenerate the .target file.

[mbarbero]

Thank you for your feedback. This cache has actually been introduced in 2.1.0. I thought about the reload issue but didn't really succeed in finding a good way to do that. I was actually expecting p2 to be clever enough to see that the remote repository has changed and then update its cache, but it does not. Maybe I should subclass MetadataRepositoryManager to add this check. Other solution (simpler) would be to add a reload action somewhere. The question is where: on the contextual menu of the .tpd file? On a location within a .tpd file? What do you think?

[hegewald]

In most of our use cases we now which location needs a reload, therefore i think a reload on a location is ok.
Nevertheless i think an reload on the complete file is a valid use case too, so both solutions are reasonable.

[mbarbero]

Ok. Thank you. I will work in that direction then.

I label it as an enhancement and it will be part of the next milestone.

[hegewald]

OK, great, thanks.

[dzonekl]

+1, run into cached old P2.

[toshovski]

Not sure if that's the same issue, but when I add new sources to a composite repository, They are not recognized from the targetplatform editor. I need to restart eclipse in order to clear the cache... A Button might be also useful, that clears the cache..

[col-panic]

Any progress on this? (just being in the situation once again ...) thanks

[col-panic]

Just searched for this again :) Reworked our target and re-built the p2 sites to satisfy the dependencies ... every time the p2 site changed I had to restart Eclipse to get the updated state in the tpd view. This really eats time ...