[KARAF-1495] Allow feature-maven-plugin:add-features-to-repo to resolve dependencies without specifying the directory to copy to

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sergey Zhemzhitsky
• Created: 21/May/12 19:20
• Updated: 21/May/12 19:20

Description

Allow feature-maven-plugin:add-features-to-repo to resolve dependencies without specifying the directory to copy to.

For example

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
    <artifactId>features-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${karaf.version}</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>add-features-to-repo</id>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>add-features-to-repo</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <descriptors>
                    <descriptor>mvn:org.apache.camel.karaf/apache-camel/${camel.version}/xml/features</descriptor>
                </descriptors>
                <features>
                    <feature>camel-blueprint</feature>
                </features>
                <addTransitiveFeatures>true</addTransitiveFeatures>
                <failOnArtifactResolutionError>false</failOnArtifactResolutionError>
                <includeMvnBasedDescriptors>true</includeMvnBasedDescriptors>
                <resolveOnly>true</resolveOnly>            
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

The <resolveOnly>true</resolveOnly> will tell the feature-maven-plugin to
resolve (like http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/resolve-mojo.html) the specified features without copying them into the target directory.

It can be rather useful when doing integration testing with karaf testing framework.
As a rule a feature has more dependencies than maven dependency and embedded karaf always connects to Internet do resolve dependencies of the specified feature, which are not listed in the pom.xml