“Eclipse-BundleShape: dir” header is not working a

Question

I'm having Eclipse Indigo (3.7) and I have the BundleShape header being set in the MANIFEST.MF of my plugin.

Eclipse-BundleShape: dir

If I export the product it is still exporting the plugin as JAR and not as a directory.

NOTE : My project is a Plugin based project.

Anything I'm missing ??

Suggestions are welcomed..!

Answer 1

Is your product feature based? If so, you can set the "Unpack the plug-in archive after the installation" option in your feature.

• open your feature.xml file
• switch to the "Included Plug-ins" tab
• select the plugin which should be in directory instead of jar form
• check "Unpack the plug-in archive after the installation" on the right side

@ EclipseSource it says: "the feature will always win. If the feature isn’t available or the unpack attribute isn’t specified, the bundle will be consulted for its shape."
http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/01/20/tip-eclipse-bundleshape/

So the reason why the BundleShape header is ignored is probably the unpack="false" attribute in your feature.xml.

Answer 2

I have just had a problem with this directive. In one project it worked as expected, in another a jar was always produced and not a folder.

In the first project the directive was right at the end of the MANIFEST file, in the second it was near the top. I moved the Bundle-Shape: dir directive to the end of the file and the problem appears to have been solved.