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Carsten Ziegeler commented on SLING-8874:
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If bnd would support such a header, then this would be a big win. And yes I
agree that the packager might already know the information (or part of it
anyway).
> Support a manifest property that indicates alternate source artifacts
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>
> Key: SLING-8874
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-8874
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Feature Model
> Reporter: Robert Munteanu
> Priority: Major
>
> The {{ApiJarsMojo}} already supports looking for alternate artifacts based on
> {{sourceId}} property located in feature model files. This is useful for
> scenarios where the bundle can not be easily changed, but has some
> disadvantages:
> - it requires inspecting the bundle that has a {{ sourceId }} property
> - it can become out of date if the bundle is changed but the {{sourceId}} is
> not.
> {code}
> Alternate-Source-Artifacts: bundle-a, bundle-b, bundle-c
> {code}
> This would in turn be inspected by the {{ApiJarsMojo}} and handled in the
> same manner that the {{sourceId}} is.
> Additionally, while working with the {{ sourceId }} property I have
> discovered two patterns of use:
> 1. The artifact repackages one or more artifacts, e.g.
> [org.apache.sling.javax.activation|https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-javax-activation]
> 2. The artifact includes some code and in addition repackages some artifacts,
> e.g.
> [org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient-osgi|https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/tree/4.5.x/httpclient-osgi]
> I would therefore suggest that we a {{mode}} argument to both the
> {{sourceId}} and the manifest header:
> * {{mode=add}} - adds the specified sources jars to the list of source
> artifacts and keeps the auto-generated one ( bundle with classifier = sources
> )
> * {{mode=replace}} - adds the specified sources jar to the list of source
> artifacts and does not keep the auto-generated one
> I think that - at least of jar files that we can change ourselves - this will
> make maintaining source artifact mappings easier.
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