[KARAF-2596] install-kars goal of the karaf-maven-plugin ignores bundles listed in the features that have the "dependency" property set to "true"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0.RC1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.2, 4.0.0.M3
• Component/s: karaf
• Labels: karaf-maven-plugin
• Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Reporter: Gary Gilchrist
• Created: 30/Nov/13 23:33
• Updated: 16/Sep/18 04:34
• Resolved: 24/Sep/14 13:32

Description

Use case:

1. ) Using the 'karaf-assembly' goal of the karaf-maven-plugin to create a "standalone" karaf distribution with all required dependencies stored in the system repo.

2. ) Building the assembly with a number of <bootFeatures> that refer to the maven artifacts of karaf features in maven feature repositories. For example as described at http://karaf.apache.org/manual/latest/developers-guide/custom-distribution.html.

Any features that are included in the assembly with bundles marked "dependency=true" will be excluded from the assembly by the InstallKarsMojo.

For example consider the "spring" feature found within http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/karaf/features/spring/3.0.0.RC1/spring-3.0.0.RC1-features.xml - a bundle like the one below will not be included in the assembly:

<feature resolver="(obr)" description="Spring support"
version="3.1.4.RELEASE" name="spring">
<details>Spring Support</details>
<bundle dependency="true" start-level="30">
mvn:org.apache.servicemix.bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.aopalliance/1.0_6
</bundle>

This is very easily fixed in the maven plugin by following the same pattern used to fix KARAF-2357. An "ignoreDependenciesFlag" configuration parameter can be added to the InstallKarsMojo and interpreted in the code for example, as follows:

// install bundles listed in install features not in system
for (Feature feature : localRepoFeatures) {
for (Bundle bundle : feature.getBundle()) {
if (ignoreDependencyFlag || !bundle.isDependency()) {

Issue Links

• is related to: KARAF-2951 Transitive repositories and bundles are not added to system repo
• is related to: KARAF-2357 features-create-kar goal of the karaf-maven-plugin ignores bundles listed in the features that have the "dependency" property set to "true"