soft_update.Update_IDynomics Class Reference

Performs an update to the iDynomics tool if a new version has been detected. More...

Inheritance diagram for soft_update.Update_IDynomics:

Public Member Functions
	Update_IDynomics ()
	Constructor to launch the procedure of an iDynomics update. More...
void	copy (String srFile, String dtFile) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
	Replaces old version of a file with the updated version from the repository. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static void	main (String args[])
	Main method - called to begin the process of updating iDynomics. More...

Public Attributes
String	pathToURLhtml = "http://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/kreftlab/iDynomics/updater_check/url.html"

Detailed Description

Performs an update to the iDynomics tool if a new version has been detected.

This class should be thought of as a standalone class. It may be packaged within iDynomics, and called by iDynomics, but is run independently as its own jar file. The purpose of this is to download the latest version from the web repository, extract the files, update the currently downloaded version to the new version, and then delete files used in the update. As this is changing class files, one of which could be the main simulator, the simulation should be shut down when this is done. Therefore, iDynomics calls this jar and exits - the update can be performed, and the user should then restart iDynomics.

This code has been amended from a freely available example update procedure written by Thomas Otero, documented here: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/190944-creating-an-updater-in-java/

Author

Thomas Otero - Created the original code and made this available online. This has been modified from his code.

Kieran Alden - Altered this code to fit iDynomics specifically and added the required documentation to suit doxygen output

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

soft_update.Update_IDynomics.Update_IDynomics

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Constructor to launch the procedure of an iDynomics update.

This constructor begins the update procedure by calling the methods to create a status window that specifies update progress, and the methods to perform the download of the update and copying of the relevant files

Member Function Documentation

void soft_update.Update_IDynomics.copy	(	String	srFile,
		String	dtFile
	)		throws FileNotFoundException, IOException

Replaces old version of a file with the updated version from the repository.

This method replaces an old version of a simulation file with an up to date version

Parameters

srFile	Path to the new updated file
dtFile	Path to the file to be replaced

Exceptions

FileNotFoundException	Exception should this file not be found
IOException	Exception should there be an input/output error during copying

static void soft_update.Update_IDynomics.main ( String  args[] )

static

Main method - called to begin the process of updating iDynomics.

This method is launched by the simulator when the user chooses to update iDynomics. The relevant download, unzip, and copy methods are then run as required.

Parameters

args	Program arguments - though none are required in this case

Member Data Documentation

String soft_update.Update_IDynomics.pathToURLhtml = "http://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/kreftlab/iDynomics/updater_check/url.html"

Path to the web address where url.html can be found - this file contains the web address of the update package

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• /home/kieran/Dropbox/workspace/iDynoMiCS/src/soft_update/Update_IDynomics.java