how to add a feature in Nitrogen opendaylight? - maven

Question

I am trying to add some feature to my open daylight project (e.g. l2switch, dlux, rest,...).
I used to edit the features.xml and the pom.xml for add there features in Carbon release. I am currently using Nitrogen release, when adding these dependencies in my features pom.xml file, I am still unable to detect the features when I login to my karaf (using feature:install/list).
<dependency>
<groupId>org.opendaylight.netconf</groupId>
<artifactId>features-restconf</artifactId>
<classifier>features</classifier>
<version>${restconf.version}</version>
<type>xml</type>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.opendaylight.dluxapps</groupId>
<artifactId>features-dluxapps</artifactId>
<classifier>features</classifier>
<version>${dluxapps.version}</version>
<type>xml</type>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
am I missing something else? when I try to add repositories,as I previously did in carbon-release. The feature.xml it automatically re-generated and all my editing is removed.
I am using Nitrogen release by defining and -DarchetypeVersion=1.4.0 when generating my maven artifact.

Answer 1

See the upstream configuration management tooling for running-code examples being used constantly in downstreams like OPNFV.
# Configuration of Karaf features to install
file { 'org.apache.karaf.features.cfg':
ensure => file,
path => '/opt/opendaylight/etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg',
# Set user:group owners
owner => 'odl',
group => 'odl',
}
$features_csv = join($opendaylight::features, ',')
file_line { 'featuresBoot':
path => '/opt/opendaylight/etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg',
line => "featuresBoot=${features_csv}",
match => '^featuresBoot=.*$',
}
puppet-opendaylight, manifests/config.pp, stable/nitrogen
So basically you shouldn't be editing the XML directly, you should edit the configuration that generates the XML. I'm surprised that worked in Carbon.
I recommend directly using upstream configuration management tooling, like puppet-opendaylight or ansible-opendaylight, vs trying to figure out the configuration knobs yourself, duplicating effort. If you're doing a more complex deployment, look at the OPNFV installer scenarios (that build on these ODL tools) vs trying to solve that very hard problem yourself.