Jackson bundles are missing OSGi's osgi.serviceloader metadata

Bundles need to include extra metadata to support java.util.ServiceLoader inside an OSGi framework. Jackson’s bundles are all missing this metadata.

In theory, it should just be a matter of applying Bnd’s @ServiceConsumer and @ServiceProvider annotations in the correct places as described here, where these annotations can be provided like this:

diff --git a/base/pom.xml b/base/pom.xml
index 6235a67..4972957 100644
--- a/base/pom.xml
+++ b/base/pom.xml
@@ -30,9 +30,17 @@ of Jackson: application code should only rely on `jackson-bom`
          parent pom, and then also allow override as need be
       -->
     <jackson-bom.version>${project.parent.version}</jackson-bom.version>
+
+    <version.bnd.annotation>6.3.1</version.bnd.annotation>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>biz.aQute.bnd</groupId>
+      <artifactId>biz.aQute.bnd.annotation</artifactId>
+      <version>${version.bnd.annotation}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency> <!-- all components use junit for testing -->
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

I am struggling to wrap my head around your myriad of separate repositories, and so you may have a better way of providing this dependency.

[cowtowncoder]

Ok good, thank you for confirming @rakeshk15.

[chrisr3]

This change will require the Aries SPIFly bundle and the jackson-core bundle will not resolve wherever Aries SPIFly bundle is missing.

The solution to that is to make the requirement optional, as has already been done with Woodstox. I’m sorry, I thought we already knew this?