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Glen Mazza commented on KARAF-762:
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I'm not sure dev:watch takes bundle IDs -- it just seems to treat it as a URL,
even if it doesn't make sense.
karaf@root> dev:watch
No watched urls
karaf@root> dev:watch 23
Adding watched urls
Watched urls:
23
karaf@root> dev:watch 23-34
Adding watched urls
Watched urls:
23
23-34
karaf@root> dev:watch 2314
Adding watched urls
Watched urls:
23
23-34
2314
karaf@root> dev:watch
Watched urls:
23
23-34
2314
But the --help information for dev:watch still needs some elaboration IMO. It
currently says:
The watch command can be used to help at developement time. It allows you to
configure a set of URLs that will be monitored. All bundles location matching
the given URL will be automatically updated. This avoids the need for manually
updating the bundles or even copying the bundle to the system folder if needed.
Note that only maven based urls and maven snapshots will actually be updated
automatically, so if you run
> dev:watch *
It will actually monitor all bundles that have a location matching mvn:* that
have '-SNAPSHOT' in their url.
Problems:
1.) It doesn't tell us what "monitoring" or "watching" really *means* -- what
does watching a bundle URL mean? I think it means when the bundle in the Maven
repo has been updated that it will automatically refresh in Karaf as well.
2.) The example I think is bad, because it will monitor bundles that also
*don't* have the "-SNAPSHOT" in their URL. (Actually dev:watch * means watch
everything? What is being watched in that case? How does it watch every Maven
URL -- how does it know what the full list of Maven URLs are? Confused.)
3.) The text says "even copying the bundle to the system folder if needed" is
no longer necessary. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be--does this mean Karaf
will automatically copy over the bundle from the Maven repo to the system
folder (physically replace it), or just ignore it and instead just reference
what's in the Maven repo, or?
4.) Some grammatical typos.
I've attached a patch that I believe fixes (1), (2), and (4) -- (3) I'm leaving
vague because I don't know the answer to that.
> dev:watch should support multiple bundle IDs
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>
> Key: KARAF-762
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-762
> Project: Karaf
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: karaf-shell
> Affects Versions: 2.2.2, 3.0.0
> Reporter: Achim Nierbeck
> Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.2.3, 3.0.0
>
> Attachments: watchTxt.patch
>
>
> if you want to watch multiple bundle you have to re-issue the dev:watch
> command for every bundle to be watched.
> if dev:watch would accept a list of bundle Ids this would help.
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