Eclipse Update Site not working

[rknall]

I am trying to install WakaTime on Eclipse. Using the given URL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wakatime/eclipse-wakatime/master/update-site/ I only get a 400:Bad Request error.

Has the URL changed?

[leodutra]

Weird part: Eclipse still finds it.

[alanhamlett]

@rknall that's a problem with older versions of Eclipse which don't support the latest update site spec. Eclipse shouldn't actually go to that url, it should check for a site.xml file in that url's folder.

[leodutra]

There's many people working here with IBM RAD 8.5. It wraps an Eclipse 3.6. Any ideas on how to fix it?

I've never developed an Eclipse plugin but I can try to help you if you show me the way.

[alanhamlett]

I just tested with Eclipse v3.6.2 and the update site link above works fine. @rknall, which version of eclipse are you using?

[leodutra]

@alanhamlett, @rknall probably tried to install from the update site.

My 3.6 finds and downloads Wakatime, but fails on local install because of missing Apache HttpClient and HttpCore.

Accessing the update site URL with a browser shows the 404 error. It happens for me too.

eclipse.buildId=unknown java.fullversion=JRE 1.7.0 IBM J9 2.6 Linux amd64-64 Compressed References 20120809_118929 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) J9VM - R26_Java726_SR2_20120809_0948_B118929 JIT - r11.b01_20120808_24925 GC - R26_Java726_SR2_20120809_0948_B118929_CMPRSS J9CL - 20120809_118929 BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US Framework arguments: -product com.ibm.rational.rad.product.v85.ide Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -product com.ibm.rational.rad.product.v85.ide

[rknall]

The URL still leads to a 400 Site error for me. I have now installed Mars, which was released in June, and after adding the Site, during the initial request, the installer tells me the following:

Unable to read repository at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wakatime/eclipse-wakatime/master/update-site/content.xml. Unable to read repository at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wakatime/eclipse-wakatime/master/update-site/content.xml. sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Weird thing, on my PC at home it was working fine, but not for the last 2-3 days.

btw, If I search for the site.xml file in that path, I can open it with a browser. But eclipse mars insists on reading a content.xml . And one more thing, cmakeed, which does not provide a content.xml at their upgrade site as well (http://cmakeed.sourceforge.net/eclipse) works fine. But it leads to a valid 404 error instead of a 400 error if you try to access the content.xml. I think that could be the issue, that the error message eclipse receives after asking the site (400) is not the one it might expect

[leodutra]

content.xml 404 for me too.

[alanhamlett]

Yes, this is normal and part of Eclipse update site protocol. Eclipse looks for a site.xml file at that url, which exists:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wakatime/eclipse-wakatime/master/update-site/site.xml

That's why the plugin installs in eclipse even though the url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wakatime/eclipse-wakatime/master/update-site/ returns a 404.

[alanhamlett]

@rknall maybe github was having an issue when returning a 400... it returns a 404 for me.

[leodutra]

Problem solved updating IBM Rational Developer to 8.5.5.2. That's why I "love" IBM.