How to determine my plugin's runtime dependencies?

Question

Hello,

After installing my plugin into JIRA, it warns me that "one or more modules is missing dependencies".

And as a result, my plugin is not enabled after installation (and cannot be enabled).

I've checked and the error logs are not helpful at all.

How can I find out what are the run-time dependencies of my plugin?  I am now suspecting that perhaps I need to add additional classes/packages into my pom.xml in the <import-package> section.  Alternatively, how can I determine what jars/libraries/classes are provided by my host JIRA instance (including those that are indirectly provided through other installed plugins which have exported their jars/libraries)?

Thanks in advance!

Victor Cheung_4yyp6v · Answer

Thank you, Alexey!  I will try your suggestion and will report my results!

Best regards,

victor

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Try to clean the osgi cache in the broken Jira instance:

* Stop the JIRA instance
* Delete JIRA_HOME/plugins/.bundled-plugins and JIRA_HOME/plugins/.osgi-plugins (just these two)
* Restart JIRA

If it is a production instance, Kindly make a backup first.

Victor Cheung_4yyp6v · Answer

Hi Alexey, Thanks for your reply! I wish you were right, because I posed this question exactly because the error log was not that helpful to me which was/is the following: 2018-06-11 08:57:43,641 ThreadPoolAsyncTaskExecutor::Thread 33 ERROR vcheung 537x13239734x1 1ute834 10.60.0.112 /rest/plugins/1.0/com.amd.jira.plugins.customFieldTool-key [c.a.p.osgi.factory.OsgiPlugin] Unable to start the plugin container for plugin 'com.amd.jira.plugins.customFieldTool' org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from URL [bundle://241.0:0/META-INF/spring/plugin-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:414) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:336) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:304) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:181) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:217) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:188) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.context.support.OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext.java:170) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.context.support.OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext.java:140) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:129) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.access$800(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:60) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext$3.run(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:242) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.util.internal.PrivilegedUtils.executeWithCustomTCCL(PrivilegedUtils.java:85) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.startRefresh(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:220) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.extender.internal.dependencies.startup.DependencyWaiterApplicationContextExecutor.stageOne(DependencyWaiterApplicationContextExecutor.java:224) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.extender.internal.dependencies.startup.DependencyWaiterApplicationContextExecutor.refresh(DependencyWaiterApplicationContextExecutor.java:177) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:157) at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.extender.internal.activator.LifecycleManager$1.run(LifecycleManager.java:207) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker.(ServiceTracker.java:184) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.util.ProductFilterUtil.detectService(ProductFilterUtil.java:86) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.util.ProductFilterUtil.detectProduct(ProductFilterUtil.java:74) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.util.ProductFilterUtil.getFilterForProduct(ProductFilterUtil.java:53) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.util.ProductFilterUtil.getFilterForCurrentProduct(ProductFilterUtil.java:44) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.extension.ClassIndexBeanDefinitionScanner.findCandidateComponents(ClassIndexBeanDefinitionScanner.java:98) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.extension.ClassIndexBeanDefinitionScanner.doScan(ClassIndexBeanDefinitionScanner.java:67) at com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.extension.AtlassianScannerBeanDefinitionParser.parse(AtlassianScannerBeanDefinitionParser.java:67) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:74) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1427) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1417) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:174) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:144) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:100) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:510) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:392) ... 20 more As you can see, the error is complaining about some kind of parsing error with my plugin-context.xml file which is:

I don't see anything wrong with the plugin-context.xml file. Furthermore, my plugin installs without any problems on another JIRA 7.2.8 instance -- it's only having this error on our Unix instance version of JIRA 7.2.8 and I'm trying to troubleshoot why. I'm at a loss since the error seems wrong/misleading.