How to get extra attributes in "resource" element of an OBR repository?

Question

We try to get Apache Felix Web Console OBR plugin working with OBR repos produced by the current BND Tools/Bindex.

The problem is that the generated repositories (for example, produced with "Release Bundles" from Eclipse) cannot be read by the Felix Web plugin.

To the contrary, the Felix' own OBR repository is properly understood by the plug-in, since it seems to have additional attributes within the "resource" element, which are missing in our repository:

...
<resource 
   id="org.apache.felix.bundlerepository/1.4.1"
   symbolicname="org.apache.felix.bundlerepository"
   presentationname="Apache Felix Bundle Repository"
   uri="http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.bundlerepository/1.4.1/org.apache.felix.bundlerepository-1.4.1.jar"
  version="1.4.1">
...

The schema specification in http://www.osgi.org/download/rfc-0112_BundleRepository.pdf leaves the room for the attributes within the "resource" XML element, however they are defined as a part of Java API.

This gitHub fork seems to do the job https://github.com/rkrzewski/bindex but does anybody know what is the status of this? Will this be integrated to Bindex some day? UPDATE: here is the answer from Rafał, this forks' owner https://github.com/rkrzewski/bindex/issues/3#issuecomment-27784279 So, I have reasked on bndtools-users Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bndtools-users/ZdY0ASnLNmc

Or are there any other ways to get the OBR repos be generated with the missing resource attributes? Thanks.

Answer 1

The development of Bindex moved to https://github.com/bndtools/bindex. (source: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bndtools-users/R3U2SDazTjY/OyOVTK8DZHUJ) Does this version create the proper format for you?