Re: [Cs-studio-users] Question about plugin installation on cs-studio version 3

[Kasemir, K. <kas...@or...>]

Hi:

>I want to use Data Browser to access Archiver Appliance, but my cs-studio cannot identify the pbraw:// URL >prefix and displayed the following error:

>Error connecting to archive server
>URL:pbraw://10.1.204.41:17668/retrieval
>Detail:Unknown archive reader URL pbraw://10.1.204.41:17668/retrieval

>Therefore, I probably need to install pbrawclient plugin for my cs-studio, but I am not familiar with eclipse >platform and do not know which is the proper way to do that. Specifically, my questions are as follows:

Yes, you're correct that your CS-Studio doesn't seem to include the archive appliance support.

The easiest way would be to get a version of CS-Studio that includes it.
The basic-epics version from https://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/css/nightly/ should include it (although I'm not using the archive appliance, so I won't know for sure).


>1. I can find jar files like org.csstudio.archive.reader.appliance_1.0.1.201609071627.jar and
> pbrawclient-0.0.4.jar from other cs-studio products, which is the one I should use? Or neither?
You can "install" those by copying them into the /dropins folder of your CS-Studio product.
You certainly need the org.csstudio.archive.reader.appliance*jar, it's the actual archive reader.
It uses the pbrawclient*jar to connect to the archive appliance.
It might need more. If you try to use it, and it fails, check the log file in YOUR_WORKSPACE/.metadata/.log, see i it has errors about being unable to load org.csstudio.archive.reader.appliance* because it's missing some other dependent plugin.

>2. Can I install the plugin directly in my cs-studio via "Help->Install New Software"
You use that to install "features".
For example, the basic-epics version can install PyDev as a feature.
But it already contains the archive readers, they are not optionally installable features.

>My cs-studio version is old, it was built by my colleagues from sns_css_src_3.2.16 two years ago. The eclipse >version is 3.7.0
That's likely the biggest problem. The org.csstudio.archive.reader.appliance that you found might not work with the older cs-studio version.

-Kay