Re: NetBeans update centre from local path

You need three slashes before the drive letter, not two.

file:///C:/... is (as I understand it) the same as file://localhost/C:/...
so file://C:/... is looking for the file ... on the host named C:

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme

Randall Wood
Alexandria Software
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http://alexandriasoftware.com

> On May 3, 2017, at 04:10, manozz91 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a Netbeans platform application and trying to implement autoupdate service,
> 
> So far am able to achieve updating from a URL by updating Bundle.properties and layer.xml
> 
> Like below,
> 
> Bundle.properties
> 
> Code:
> update_center=file://xyz.com/NbUpdateCenter/updates.xml
> 
> ......
> ......
> Services/AutoupdateType/update_center.instance=Update Center
> 
> 
> 
> layer.xml
> 
> Code:
> <folder name="Services">
>        <folder name="AutoupdateType">
>            <file name="update_center.instance">
>                <attr name="displayName" bundlevalue="images.Bundle#Services/AutoupdateType/update_center.instance"/>
>                <attr name="enabled" boolvalue="true"/>
>                <attr name="instanceCreate" methodvalue="org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.updateprovider.AutoupdateCatalogFactory.createUpdateProvider"/>
>                <attr name="instanceOf" stringvalue="org.netbeans.spi.autoupdate.UpdateProvider"/>
>                <attr name="url" bundlevalue="images.Bundle#update_center"/>
>            </file>
>        </folder>
>    </folder>
> 
> 
> 
> What i am trying to do is,
> 
> Keep the required files in local path and update from there.
> 
> Something like this,
> 
> 
> Code:
> update_center=file://C:/NbUpdateCenter/updates.xml
> 
> 
> 
> It throws , INFO [org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.updateprovider.DownloadListener]: Reading URL file://C:/NbUpdateCenter/updates.xml failed (java.net.UnknownHostException: C)
> 
> 
> Is it possible to update from local path if all required files are available. or how should i do this?
> 
> 
> 
>