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Upgrading Karaf to 4.2.2 - Day 9
Yesterday we fixed all Vaadin related issue and were very positive to have fixed a lot of issues and pushed our changes to Bamboo to see what actually all is broken.
Integration Test wise, all Karaf related tests failed.
I investigated the issue and long story short:
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Hacking the startup.properties in our
KarafTestCaseis no longer working, instead the library must be provided otherwise. -
Executing the tests don’t work anymore and result in a
ClassNotFoundException, bundle wiring is no longer valid
I could not really figure out why the test execution always failed with that exception. Investigations revealed that while the test is installing some features, some bundles change their import/export statements and than at some point the test execution fails, because at that point the bundle no longer imports/exports required classes. I suspect that this may be fixable when by waiting long enough for the features to be installed.
However just figuring out the root cause of this, took me a whole day.
To not fiddle with thit any longer, I decided to @Ignore the tests for now.