Why are uses constraints violated when both chains end in the same bundle?

Question

I have four bundles, each containing only a manifest. The bundles are

• app which imports com.example.foo.fragment and com.example.bar
• foo which exports com.example.foo;uses:=com.example.foo.cfg
• foo.fragment which is a fragment attached to foo that exports com.example.foo.fragment and com.example.foo.fragment.cfg;uses:=com.example.foo.fragment
• bar which exports com.example.bar and imports com.example.foo

Bundle-level dependency graph:

app -> bar
|       |
|       v
|      foo
|       |
v       v
foo.fragment

When I install these bundles all at once in JBoss AS 7.2, they work just fine. But if I install the app bundle after the others, either for the first time or after successfully starting and then uninstalling it, the following uses constraint violation occurs:

Caused by: org.osgi.service.resolver.ResolutionException: Uses constraint violation. Unable to resolve resource com.example.app [HostBundleRevision[com.example.app:0.0.
0]] because it is exposed to package 'com.example.foo.fragment' from resources com.example.foo [HostBundleRevision[com.example.foo:0.0.0]] and com.example.foo [HostBund
leRevision[com.example.foo:0.0.0]] via two dependency chains.

Chain 1:
  com.example.app [HostBundleRevision[com.example.app:0.0.0]]
    import: null
     |
    export: osgi.wiring.package=com.example.foo.fragment
  com.example.foo [HostBundleRevision[com.example.foo:0.0.0]]

Chain 2:
  com.example.app [HostBundleRevision[com.example.app:0.0.0]]
    import: null
     |
    export: osgi.wiring.package=com.example.bar; uses:=com.example.foo
  com.example.bar [HostBundleRevision[com.example.bar:0.0.0]]
    import: null
     |
    export: osgi.wiring.package=com.example.foo; uses:=com.example.foo.fragment
    export: osgi.wiring.package=com.example.foo.fragment
  com.example.foo [HostBundleRevision[com.example.foo:0.0.0]]
        at org.apache.felix.resolver.ResolverImpl.checkPackageSpaceConsistency(ResolverImpl.java:1142)
        at org.apache.felix.resolver.ResolverImpl.resolve(ResolverImpl.java:197)
        at org.jboss.osgi.resolver.felix.StatelessResolver.resolve(StatelessResolver.java:56)
        at org.jboss.osgi.framework.internal.ResolverImpl.resolveAndApply(ResolverImpl.java:137)
        at org.jboss.as.osgi.service.BundleLifecycleIntegration$BundleLifecycleImpl.activateDeferredPhase(BundleLifecycleIntegration.java:296)
        ... 31 more

The full manifests are:

app.jar/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
----------------------------
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-SymbolicName: com.example.app
Import-Package: com.example.foo.fragment,com.example.bar
----------------------------
foo.jar/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
----------------------------
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-SymbolicName: com.example.foo
Export-Package: com.example.foo;uses:="com.example.foo.cfg"
-------------------------------------
foo.fragment.jar/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
-------------------------------------
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-SymbolicName: com.example.foo.fragment
Fragment-Host: com.example.foo
Export-Package: com.example.foo.fragment,com.example.foo.cfg;uses:="co
 m.example.foo.fragment"
----------------------------
bar.jar/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
----------------------------
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-SymbolicName: com.example.bar
Export-Package: com.example.bar;uses:="com.example.foo"
Import-Package: com.example.foo

I have not been able to reproduce the above error in standalone Apache Felix 4.2.1.

What is the cause of this behaviour? If I delete the Fragment-Host: com.example.foo row from the foo.fragment manifest, I can reinstall app just fine without errors. Is this a bug in JBoss AS 7.2?

Answer 1

You don't have to import foo.fragment in app your dependency will resolve from foo. so just remove that dependency and re-deploy that. This issue is because of cyclic dependency.