[jira] Commented: (KARAF-165) A better 'feature-assembly' plugin

["Andreas Pieber (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andreas Pieber commented on KARAF-165:
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ok, the name of this issue is quite general but the specific request is already fixed, isn't it?

> A better 'feature-assembly' plugin
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KARAF-165
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-165
>             Project: Karaf
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Adrian Trenaman
>            Assignee: Adrian Trenaman
>
> Create an improved Maven feature-assembly plugin. Right now, to make a feature I've got to add almost a hundred lines of Maven verbage to my pom.xml in order to assemble a feature. I've got to use the attach-artifact goal of the org.codehaus.mojo/build-helper-maven-plugin to deploy my features file into Maven. I've got to use the add-features-to-repo goal from the org.apache.karaf.tooling/features-maven-plugin to suck down all the dependent bundles. I've got to a whole load of other stuff to perform the packaging to .tar.gz and .zip. The problem here is that I'm using a whole load of generic plugins to do a very specific job, and I'm having to tell the plugins what to do instead of telling them what I want done. I'd prefer to have a single more declarative plugin to do this. It might look like this:  
> {code:xml}
> 			<plugin>
> 				<groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
> 				<artifactId>feature-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
> 				<version>2.2.0</version>
> 				<executions>
> 					<execution>
> 						<id>create-repo</id>
> 						<phase>generate-resources</phase>
> 						<goals>
> 							<goal>create-repo</goal>
> 						</goals>
> 						<configuration>
> 							<!-- Specify the feature file to use. -->
> 							<featureFile>file:${basedir}/target/classes/features.xml</featureFile>
> 	
> 							<!-- Specify what features to include. This is actually optional: if no features
> 								are specified, then include all features in the file by default. --> 
> 							<features>
> 								<feature>feature-a</feature>
> 							</features>
> 						</configuration>
> 					</execution>
> 				</executions>
> 			</plugin>
> {code}
> The plugin should produce a .tar.gz and .zip file, containing the feature descriptor (and all dependent descriptors) and all bundles (and dependent bundles)in a Maven-style directory, similar to the system/ directory currently used in Karaf. Note that this plugin doesn't need you to list out all the feature repositories / descriptors that your feature file may transitively include - it will detect these dependencies at runtime and work out the details.

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