[NETBEANSINFRA-13] Let nbm:run-ide download NetBeans installation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: MU - Apache NetBeans NBM maven plugin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Sewe
• Created: 25/Oct/19 10:14
• Updated: 05/Mar/20 17:33

Description

At the moment, using nbm:run-ide to test against a NetBeans installation requires the user to manually download and unzip a NetBeans archive and then pointing the -Dnetbeans.installation property to the respective directory.

I wonder whether the following would be doable:

• Download the NetBeans installation from some -Dnetbeans.downloadUrl
• Cache it in the local Maven repository
• And unzip it below project.build.directory
• Use that installation during the run-ide proper.

Maybe this could be a new goal, e.g., materialize-ide.

Then one would do the following:

<executions>
  <execution>
    <goals>
      <goal>materialize-ide</goal>
    </goals>
  </execution>
  <execution>
    <goals>
      <goal>run-ide</goal>
    </goals>
    <configuration>
      <netbeansInstallation>${project.build.outputDirectory}/netbeans/materialized-ide</netbeansInstallation>
    <configuration>
  </execution>
  <configuration>
    <downloadUrl>...</downloadUrl>
    <!-- Determine coordinates in local Maven repo -->
    <ideArtifact>
      <groupId>some.groupId</groupId>
      <artifactId>some.artifactId</artifactId>
      <version>someVersion</someVersion>
    </ideArtifact>
  </configuration>
</executions>