Karaf console commands for osgi

[rich.peters]

Hi,

we have had a hard time working around installing some updates to osgi bundles that our security required we make.

Life would be a lot easier if there were two new features:

  1.  There was an osgi command to query the bundle id of a package name in the maven format:

               osgi:bundle org.springframework/spring-core/3.1.4.RELEASE

       currently there is no way to get the bundle id of a package easily

  2.  The osgi:install command accepted a bundle bundle-level as an optional parameter (as in the osgi:bundle-level command)

       if you do 1.  you dont absolutely need 1, but it would be convenient

These two features would make scripting upgrades easier

thanks

Rich

[davsclaus]

The Karaf console is like the unix shell so you can pipe commands,

    list -l | grep -i " org.springframework/spring-core"

Yeah I guess there isn't a sed/awk to grab what you then need.

You are welcome to make a suggestion at the Apache Karaf project as this is karaf specific

http://karaf.apache.org/index/community/discussion-forums.html

[janstey]

Agree, those would be nice features to add to Karaf. If it helps, here is some ugly scripting I recently used to upgrade Spring 3.1 libs to 3.2:

#!/bin/bash

./bin/client -u admin -p admin "osgi:list -s" | grep org.springframework | grep 3.1 | grep -v asm | sed 's/\[ \([0-9]*\).*/\1/' |

while read id

do (

   name=`./bin/client -u admin -p admin "osgi:headers --force $id" | grep Symbolic | sed 's/.*= \(.*\)/\1/'`

   echo "Updating $name to 3.2.4.RELEASE"

   ./bin/client -u admin -p admin "osgi:update --force $id mvn:org.springframework/$name/3.2.4.RELEASE"

)

done

[rich.peters]

Claus,

thanks I did post it on the Karaf forum

Rich