using QueryDSL in osgi - osgi

Question

I have been trying to use querydsl in a project which is an osgi bundle.
my pom.xml has the following dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mysema.querydsl</groupId>
<artifactId>querydsl-apt</artifactId>
<version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mysema.querydsl</groupId>
<artifactId>querydsl-jpa</artifactId>
<version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>
As well as the plugin
<plugin>
<groupId>com.mysema.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-apt-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.3.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/java</outputDirectory>
<processor>com.mysema.query.apt.jpa.JPAAnnotationProcessor</processor>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.ops4j</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-pax-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<!-- | the following instructions build a simple set of public/private
classes into an OSGi bundle -->
<configuration>
<instructions>
<Import-Package>com.mysema.query.jpa,*</Import-Package>
<Export-Package>com.mypackage.package.*;version="${project.version}"</Export-Package>
</instructions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Still when I try to start the bundle I get:
Error executing command: Unresolved constraint in bundle com.mypackage.package [163]: Unable to resolve 163.0: missing requirement [163.0] package; (&(package=com.mysema.query.jpa)(version>=2.5.0)(!(version>=3.0.0)))
I was using an older version of querydsl but apparently they fixed some stuff about osgi recently so I upgraded. The problem persists.
What I am missing for querydsl to work inside osgi?

Answer 1

Installing each dependency by hand will be a pain, but AFAIK there's nothing that will take a maven artifact and chain back of all dependencies - this would fail as where would it stop?
You could end up with every version of every logging framework (even if you had pax-logging installed), or the wrong implementation.
Alas in maven's case there's currently no way of applying semantic versioning or higher level requirement and capability. (Though BND (maven-bundle-plugin, bndtools) makes some sensible assumptions at a code level)
Karaf features (see the PDF manual in distribution's ${KARAF_HOME}) can do a lot to alleviate this but it can take some work to setup. There's a(t least) couple of ways to generate features files;
Use the features-maven-plugin
Use the maven-build-helper plugin to publish an XML file that you handcraft (laborious but you can maintain versions using resource filtering).