[NETBEANS-4987] Disable "Request verification" if plugin's manifest is incomplete

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 12.0
• Component/s: updatecenters - Pluginportal
• Assignee: Matthias Bläsing
• Reporter: Jiří Kovalský
• Created: 03/Nov/20 13:15
• Updated: 05/Feb/21 21:21
• Resolved: 13/Nov/20 22:03

Description

Right now it is possible to publish plugins on Maven Central which do not have all the required attributes in their manifests like OpenIDE-Module-Name which then breaks generation of module catalog for the whole update center. In order to prevent showstoppers like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4948 it would be good if Plugin Portal checks Info/info.xml file and verifies if that attribute is available. If not, corresponding plugin version would not have Request verification button enabled with a link to a Confluence page explaining why and how to fix it.

In addition to that it would be great if Plugin Portal would open a popup window with standard output of the module catalog generation Ant task. This will streamline finding the root cause of the UC generation problems via the browser in the future.

Issue Links

• relates to: NETBEANS-4948 Check for newest plugins not working