[NETBEANS-4367] DEFAULT_CACHEDIR_ROOT not propagating to platform application (Linux and MacOS)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 11.3
• Fix Version/s: 12.1
• Component/s: platform - Launchers&CLI

Environment

NetBeans Platform applications on MacOS or Linux.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eirik Bakke
• Created: 23/May/20 17:43
• Updated: 05/Feb/21 21:20
• Resolved: 22/Jun/20 15:59

Description

(The following issue description pasted from Patrik Karlström's email to [e-mail] on 2020-05-23. Eirik Bakke had the same issue in his NetBeans platform application, and has a patch ready.)

The following is done with NB Platform 11.3 and Java 11 on Kubuntu 20.04.

While I was about to use the cache dir logic provided by the platform I ran into this problem.

My cache dir is in
${HOME}/.${APPNAME}/var/cache
and not as expected,
${HOME}/.cache/${APPNAME}

The app.conf contains
default_userdir="${DEFAULT_USERDIR_ROOT}/dev"
default_cachedir="${DEFAULT_CACHEDIR_ROOT}/dev"

Did some echoing in the bin/appname and DEFAULT_CACHEDIR_ROOT was set ok, but not picked up by the application.

When specifying --cachedir it gets picked up by the application.

I created a simple testapp and this problem is there too.

So I guess the question is, Is this related to my doing or the platform?

Issue Links

• is a parent of: NETBEANSINFRA-234 Missing fix for default_cachedir for RCP applications build with Maven