Introduction

This document lists changes made to the Autoupdate Services API.


Index of APIs

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.services > 1.20

Changes by affected class

org.netbeans.api.autoupdate.OperationContainer

org.netbeans.api.autoupdate.OperationSupport

org.netbeans.spi.autoupdate.UpdateItem


Details of all changes by API and date


Autoupdate Services API

New operation type introduced together with method for create appropriate container

Aug 19 '09; API spec. version: 1.11; affected top-level classes: OperationSupport OperationContainer; made by: dlipin; issues: #141714

New operation type - OperationSupport.OperationType.INTERNAL_UPDATE is introduced. This operation can be used to find out elements which have updates and which the particular element has the dependency on.

Feature enabled only when all its dependencies are enabled

Apr 15 '09; API spec. version: 1.8; affected top-level classes: UpdateItem; made by: jtulach; issues: #162673

The behaviour of UpdateItem.createFeature().getInstalled().isEnabled() has been changed. Now it returns true only if all dependencies are enabled.


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