Hi Massimo,
1. You can see the Maven plugin as a "substituter" for features repository XML
templates. So, you can start with a XML template and replace dependency version
or extend with this template based on the pom.xml. You don't have to use it, you
can use a finalized XML directly.
2. It's related to the features XML generated: if the inner feature contains the
prerequesite=true and dependency=true flags.
Regards
JB
On 11/13/2017 09:50 AM, Massimo Bono wrote:
Hello,
I've several questions about Karaf Maven Plugin, features-generate-descriptor
goal; I hope you don't mind if I've put all of them in a single thread.
1) I wonder why you couldn't declare feature dependencies inside the pom.xml. I
know you need to declare them in a inputFile xml template (as I discovered both
in
http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Getting-the-plugin-to-generate-feature-dependencies-td4043053.html
and in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29645553/karaf-maven-plugin-defining-a-dependency-as-a-feature).
However, I still don't grasp what is the underlying reason not to have them
declared in the pom. I've looked at the code of the goal (on
https://github.com/apache/karaf/blob/master/tooling/karaf-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/tooling/features/GenerateDescriptorMojo.java
) but I didn't fully understand the decision (probably because it's the first
time I've looked into a Mojo). Why can't we have a "dependentFeature" tag?
2) Related to the first question: what is the purpose of "prerequisiteFeatures"
and "dependencyFeatures" parameters?
Thanks for any kind reply!
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