[ wix-Bugs-1273447 ] Can't put RegLocator inside DrLocator

Bugs item #1273447, was opened at 2005-08-25 14:42
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Category: candle
>Group: v2.0
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jeff Lawson (bovineone)
>Assigned to: Rob Mensching (robmen)
Summary: Can't put RegLocator inside DrLocator

Initial Comment:
I need to be able to represent this MSI relationship,
which seems disallowed:

Table "AppSearch"
Property="INSTALLDIR", Signature="_olddir"

Table "DrLocator"
Signature="_olddir", Parent="_oldexe1", Path="", Depth=0
Signature="_olddir", Parent="_oldexe2", Path="", Depth=0

Table "RegLocator"
Signature="_oldexe1", ....., Type="File"
Signature="_oldexe2", ....., Type="File"

Table "Signature"
Signature="_oldexe1", .....
Signature="_oldexe2", .....

The representation I would need is:

    <Property Id="INSTALLDIR">
      <DirectorySearch Id="_olddir" Depth="0">
        <RegistrySearch Id="_oldexe1" Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\MyCompany\MyProgram" Name="Executable"
Type="file">
          <FileSearch Id="_oldexe1" Name="PROGRAM1.EXE"
MinSize="200000" MaxSize="4000000" />
        </RegistrySearch>
      </DirectorySearch>

      <DirectorySearch Id="_olddir" Depth="0">
        <RegistrySearch Id="_oldexe2" Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\MyCompany\MyProgram" Name="Executable"
Type="file">
          <FileSearch Id="_oldexe2" Name="PROGRAM2.EXE"
MinSize="200000" MaxSize="4000000" />
        </RegistrySearch>
      </DirectorySearch>
    </Property>

However, this produces the error:

error CNDL0005 : The DirectorySearch element contains
an unexpected child element 'RegistrySearch'.

But I think if that were fixed, it would still probably
fail with something like:

error LGHT0112 : Duplicate symbol 'DrLocator:_olddir//'
found.


I have not had any problems with the 4 table
relationship (at the top of this report) when I was
previously using msi2xml/xml2msi and the Orca
validators have never indicated that this was an
invalid relationship.

Is what I have been doing actually illegal, or is
wix/candle erroroneously stringent?

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Comment By: Jeff Lawson (bovineone)
Date: 2005-08-31 10:39

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I've temporarily been able to work around this limitation by
hand-generating a .wxsobj object file containing a
"fragment" with the necessary raw table rows.  I can then
link that into the rest of my Wix project without problems,
but I agree it would be nice for this syntax to be natively
supported.

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Comment By: Rob Mensching (robmen)
Date: 2005-08-31 00:33

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This is a limitation in the WiX representation of the Search 
elements.  The Locator tables don't map to a heirarchy well 
and the WiX schema doesn't handle all cases.  This is a bug 
that needs to be fixed.  It just isn't simple.

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