[FELIX-3168] Add support for new PASSWORD attribute type of Metatype service

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: webconsole-3.1.8
• Fix Version/s: webconsole-4.0.0
• Component/s: Web Console
• Assignee: Felix Meschberger
• Reporter: Felix Meschberger
• Created: 17/Oct/11 10:21
• Updated: 30/Jun/17 08:06
• Resolved: 17/Dec/11 15:28

Description

OSGi Residential Specification 4.3 includes an update to the Metatype service supporting a new attribute type PASSWORD.

The WebConsole configuration admin page must be extended to support this new attribute type with an appropriate input field (probably password and not maybe even not transferring the actual configuration value to the client ...)

Issue Links

• breaks: FELIX-5661 The heuristic to derive the password type from the metatype id does not work reliably