Local Index Repo

Bnd stores information about bundles it knows in an index, following the OSGi Repository Service Specification. The LocalIndexedRepo can be used as a repository to release bundles in or where bundles can be added manually (in bndtools via drag and drop).

Configuration

The class name of the plugin is aQute.bnd.deployer.repository.LocalIndexRepo. It can take the following configuration properties:

Merging the information from both tables into one, we get the following comprehensive table:

Property	Type	Default	Description	Required?
`name`	`NAME`		The name of the repository.	No
`local`	`STRING`		The directory the index and added bundles will be stored in	Yes
`locations`	`STRING`	empty	The location to store the index file. Comma-separated list of additional index URLs. NB: surround this value with single-quotes if it contains more than one entry.	No.
`readonly`	`BOOLEAN`	`false`	Blocks write access to the repository. Whether the repository should be read-only, i.e., disabled for editing from Bndtools.	No.
`overwrite`	`BOOLEAN`	`false`	Enable overwrite of existing Bundles. By default, Bundles with the same Versions will not be added again.
`onlydirs`	`BOOLEAN`	`false`	A comma-separated list of directories relative to the `local` property to be whitelisted for this repo (used when the index is created).
`cache`	`STRING`	`${local}/.cache`	Local cache directory for remote resources.	No.
`pretty`	`BOOLEAN`	`false`	Whether to generate the index in printed format. See Note 2 below.	No.
`phase`	`STRING`		Controls the resolution phase in which this repository may be used: `build`, `runtime` or `any`
`timeout`	`integer`		If there is a cached file, then just use it if the cached file is within the `timeout` period OR `online` is `false`.
`online`	`BOOLEAN`	`true`	Specifies if this repository is online. If `false` then cached resources are used.
`type`	`STRING`	`R5`	The type (format) of index to generate. See Note 1 below.	No.
`tags`	`STRING`		Comma separated list of tags. (e.g. resolve, baseline, release) Use a placeholder like <<EMPTY>> to exclude the repo from resolution. The `resolve` tag is picked up by the -runrepos instruction.	No

Note 1: The index is generated by default in R5 format. To request alternative format(s), specify a list of format names separated by the “|” (pipe) character. For example, to generate both R5 and OBR formats specify type=R5|OBR.

Note 2: R5 indexes are generated by default with no whitespace/indenting and gzipped, and the default index file name is index.xml.gz. Turning on pretty-printing enables indented, uncompressed output into the file index.xml. This setting has no effect on OBR indexes, which are always indented/uncompressed and named repository.xml.

Example

	aQute.bnd.deployer.repository.LocalIndexedRepo; \
		name = Release; \
		pretty = true; \
		local = ${build}/release

Tagging

This plugin supports Tagging via the tags configuration property. See Tagging of repository plugins for more details.