I am currently experimenting with builds in maven that are assembled
into an application using bndrun files from bndtools. The packaging and
running part already works quite nicely but of course testing is at
least as important. I know that bndtools has its own way of testing but
I am not sure if it works with maven and I really like pax exam for its
flexibility.
So I wonder if it would make sense to provide pax exam config options
for bndrun configs. I could imagine to simply do somthing like
protected static Option config() throws Exception {
return BndToolsOptions.bndrun("my.bndrun");
}
The advantage compared to the current approach of adding individual
bundles is that we can use the bndtools resolver and an index as
backing. This makes creating a test config a log easier - especially
when you need to install a bigger list of bundles. Still we could add
more bundles to this for special test cases.
We could also get some more information from the bndrun file like the
framework to use and the framework options.
Apart from the user facing API another question is how to get the list
of bundles to run. The resolve step in bndtools (which is now also
available as a maven plugin) creates a list of runbundles in the bndrun
file with bundle entries like this:
org.apache.aries.rsa.core;version='[1.9.0,1.9.1)'
So while this already clearly identifies the bundle you still need an
index to find the actual jar location. I will ask on the bndtools user
list which is the best way to get the locations.
I found that there is a file generated/samples.bndrun.resolved which
might help. It contains lines like this:
org.apache.aries.rsa.core;version='[1.9.0,1.9.1)';resolution=file:/home/cschneider/.m2/repository/org/apache/aries/rsa/org.apache.aries.rsa.core/1.9.0/org.apache.aries.rsa.core-1.9.0.jar
This might help already but I will validate if it is the correct way.
So what do you think about such support? Had anyone maybe already
experimented with this?
Christian
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http://www.liquid-reality.de
Open Source Architect
http://www.talend.com
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