[jira] Commented: (FELIX-459) BND: allow customization of the "uses" clause in the generated Export-Package

["Felix Meschberger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Felix Meschberger commented on FELIX-459:
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> 3) the "uses" clause can expose internal implementation details, that you might not want to in the manifest. 

Correct me, if I am wrong: I think the uses clause may list three kinds of packages:

    * packages also exported (or imported) by the bundle: these are ok
    * packages private to the bundle: these should not be in the uses list
    * packages neither exported, nor imported nor private to the bundle: these should be flagged as errors

These three cases may probably be handled programmatically (by BND) and require no configuration. 

WDYT ?

> BND: allow customization of the "uses" clause in the generated Export-Package
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-459
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-459
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Maven Bundle Plugin
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0
>            Reporter: Stuart McCulloch
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.2.1
>
>
> Currently there is no way to exclude or customize the "uses" clause generated by BND for Export-Package entries.
> There are a number of scenarios where this would be useful:
>   1) when the generated "uses" clause is very large, this can cause problems with Eclipse/PDE (possibly due to a bug in the PDE logic, or because PDE does some extra processing based on this clause).
>   2) there may be a package that should be in the "uses" list but for some reason it's not been detected by BND.
>   3) the "uses" clause can expose internal implementation details, that you might not want to in the manifest.
> this still needs to be investigated and designed, so this work will be done after the 1.2.0 release of the bundleplugin.

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