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How to discover missing plugin dependencies? [message #547879]

Tue, 20 July 2010 04:09

kcassell2001

Messages: 18
Registered: May 2010

Junior Member

I wanted to see whether I could install my first plugin in a newly installed Eclipse (Version: 3.5.2, Build id: M20100211-1343 on Windows). I placed my plugin and one of the ones it depended on in the dropins directory. After I started Eclipse my plugin wasn't shown as being installed while the other one was. I eventually noticed that I had forgotten to include another plugin on which mine was dependent. After including this one, my plugin showed up.

The unfortunate thing is that Eclipse didn't tell me about the missing dependency in either the error log or .metadata/.log. I also got no useful information when I started Eclipse with the -clean and -debug options. Is there some way to get a report about what dependencies are missing?

Cheers,
Keith

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Re: How to discover missing plugin dependencies? [message #547898 is a reply to message #547879]

Tue, 20 July 2010 06:59

Mickael Istria

Messages: 865
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

Senior Member

Hi,

You can start or diag the OSGi Console and try to start the bundle manually. The console will print you some warnings. See http://eclipse.org/equinox/documents/quickstart.php for more details.

shell> eclipse -console
[...Eclipse starts up...]
osgi> diag your.unresolved.bundle
[...shows you unresolved constraints...]

HTH,
--
Mickael Istria -- BonitaSoft S.A.
http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/downloads.php

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