[jira] [Created] (OAK-10222) Provide package dependency on jars / bundles in an OSGi environment

["Roy Teeuwen (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Roy Teeuwen created OAK-10222:
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             Summary: Provide package dependency on jars / bundles in an OSGi environment
                 Key: OAK-10222
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-10222
             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Roy Teeuwen


We want to be able to state that a package should not install unless a OSGi bundle is available. There are situations where the package depends on code to be available before it can be correctly installed. 

An example when this is useful is when using an external install hook, which is not available yet. This could be the case if you have the following content package:
 * {{all (content-package)}}
 ** {{vendor-framework-all (content-package)}}
 *** {{vendor-framework-core (bundle containing hook)}}
 ** {{application-content (content-package with install hook depending on vendor-framework-core bundle)}}

An option to be able to fix this in an "easy" approach would for example be by registering OSGi bundles as packages to the package manager, the bundle symbolic name and version can be used as package name + version.

Any other suggestions are welcome. I have already tried using an approach from Sling: https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/installer-provider-installhook.html. But this is not possible to use this because you can't put an installPathRegex from the {{application-content}} content-package on an embedded {{vendor-framework-core}} package. It also feels like an even bigger hack / workaround than the proposal



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