features.xml + dependency="true"

[Zhemzhitsky Sergey <Se...@troika.ru>]

Hi there,

It the last versions of karaf, feature's bundles can be marked with dependency="true" attribute.
It seems that such a bundles will not be resolved when installing a new feature.

For example I have third party feature cxf

<feature name="cxf">
        ...
        <bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.servicemix.bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jdom/1.1_3</bundle>
        <bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.servicemix.bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.dom4j/1.6.1_2</bundle>
        <bundle dependency="true">mvn:org.apache.servicemix.bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.xstream/1.3_3</bundle>
        ...
</feature>

And in my feature I would like to add a reference to this cxf feature

<feature name="my-feature">
    <feature>cxf</feature>
</feature>

When I'm trying to install my-feature I would like the bundles marked as dependencies in cxf feature to be resolved because I'm getting exceptions like
"Requested factory com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory cannot be located", etc.

I don't like my feature to depend from "dependencies" of third party features explicitly, because it does not use them.

Is it possible to force third party features to resolve their dependencies?

Best Regards,
Sergey Zhemzhitsky

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Re: features.xml + dependency="true"

[Ioannis Canellos <io...@gmail.com>]

Hi Sergey,

The role of the dependency attribute is to mark that a bundle is a
dependency. If a dependency is already satisfied (an existing bundle already
exports the same packages/version) then it doesn't get installed. This
behavior happens if the declared feature resolver is installed (e.g. obr is
installed).

In your case "my-feature" depends from the cxf feature. The cxf feature
requires the presence of jdom, dom xstream etc. It specifies the servicemix
bundles that satisfy those dependencies. If the specified resolver is
present, it will check to see if those dependencies are
already fulfilled and only in those case that are not, will those bundles be
installed.


I am not sure if the exception that you mentioned is somehow related to the
dependency attribute. Maybe a complete stack trace could shed some more
light into it.

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