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<h1 class="page">Apache Felix Inventory Printer</h1>
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<p>The Apache Felix Inventory Printer is a simple and extensible framework to retrieve inventory information about applications running in an OSGi Framework.
Typical information includes currently installed bundles, their state, available configurations, framework properties, log files etc.</p>
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<p>Historically the Inventory Printer evolved from the Web Console Configuration Printer framework.</p>
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<h2 id="_introduction"><a class="anchor" href="#_introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
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<p>When trying to find a problem or analyzing the system it would be nice to have a single place to go to and get available information.
The Apache Felix inventory bundle tries to exactly fill this gap.</p>
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<p>Originally, the idea started within the Apache Felix WebConsole and it&#8217;s configuration printers - these pluggable printers allowed to view all available status information in a web browser or download this as zip file.
While this already solves most use cases, tying this general functionality to a web console felt wrong, and that&#8217;s when the inventory module started.</p>
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<p>The current version of the inventory implementation, registers all available InventoryPrinters (see below) as plugins to the web console as this is still the number one use case.</p>
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<h2 id="_requirements"><a class="anchor" href="#_requirements"></a>Requirements</h2>
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<p>In and of itself the Apache Felix Inventory Printer module is independent of other modules.</p>
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<p>To actually get access to the output of Inventory Printer services, though, the Apache Felix Web Console must be installed.</p>
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<p>In the future <a href="#_integration_with_the_apache_felix_gogo_shell">Integration with the Apache Felix Gogo Shell</a> will also be provided in which case the Apache Felix Gogo Shell must be installed.</p>
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<h2 id="_inventory_printer_services"><a class="anchor" href="#_inventory_printer_services"></a>Inventory Printer Services</h2>
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<p>Inventory Printer Services are registered as <code>org.apache.felix.inventory.InventoryPrinter</code> type OSGi services with the following service registration properties:</p>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.inventory.printer.name</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The unique name of the printer.
If there are two or more services with the same name, the service with the highest ranking is used.</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.inventory.printer.title</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The title displayed by tools when this printer is used.
It should be descriptive but short.</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.inventory.printer.format</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The property defining the supported rendering formats.
The value of this property is either a string or a string array containing valid names of <a href="../_attachments/apidocs/inventory/1.0.0/org/apache/felix/inventory/Format.html"><code>Format</code></a>.
If this property is missing or contains invalid values, the printer is ignored.</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.inventory.printer.webconsole</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>true</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Optional property controlling whether the printer will be displayed in the web console.
By default, a printer is displayed in the web console, unless this property is added with the value 'false'.
The property value can either be a boolean or a string.</p></td>
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<p>The first three properties are required for the Inventory Printer service to be accepted.
Otherwise the service is ignored by the framework printing a message to the log.</p>
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<p>To prevent bundle resolution failure if the <code>InventoryPrinter</code> API is not available in the framework it is suggested to register the Inventory Printer services as service factories and dynamically import the API.
See the question <a href="../tutorials-examples-and-presentations/apache-felix-osgi-faq.html#_how_to_provide_optional_services" class="page">How to provide optional services?</a> in the Apache Felix OSGi FAQ for more details.</p>
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<h3 id="_example_inventory_printer_service"><a class="anchor" href="#_example_inventory_printer_service"></a>Example Inventory Printer Service</h3>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java"> @Component
@Service
@Properties({
@Property(name = "felix.inventory.printer.name", value = "sample"),
@Property(name = "felix.inventory.printer.title", value = "This is a Sample"),
@Property(name = "felix.inventory.printer.format",
value = { "TEXT", "HTML", "JSON" })
})
public class SampleInvetoryPrinter implements InventoryPrinter
{
public void print(PrintWriter printWriter, Format format, boolean isZip)
{
if (format == Format.JSON)
{
printWriter.print("{ \"key\": \"Sample Output\" }");
}
else if (format == Format.HTML)
{
printWriter.print("&lt;b&gt;Sample Output&lt;/b&gt;");
}
else
{
printWriter.print("Sample Output");
}
}
}</code></pre>
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<p>See also the <a href="../_attachments/apidocs/inventory/1.0.0/">API JavaDoc</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="_zip_attachment_provider"><a class="anchor" href="#_zip_attachment_provider"></a>ZIP Attachment Provider</h2>
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<p>If an Inventory Printer wants to provide additional contents to an Inventory ZIP File, it can implement the <a href="/apidocs/inventory/1.0.0/org/apache/felix/inventory/ZipAttachmentProvider.html">ZipAttachmentProvider</a> interface and provide additional files when the zip is created.</p>
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<h2 id="_configuration_printer_services"><a class="anchor" href="#_configuration_printer_services"></a>Configuration Printer Services</h2>
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<p>For backwards compatibility the Inventory Printer framework also supports legacy Apache Felix Web Console <code>ConfigurationPrinter</code> services.</p>
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<p>Configuration Printer services are wrapped in an <code>InventoryPrinter</code> adapter and re-registered as Inventory Printer services.
Thus they are registered with the Web Console or the Gogo Shell as if the Configuration Printer would be an Inventory Printer.</p>
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<p>Configuration Printer Services are registered as <code>org.apache.felix.webconsole.ConfigurationPrinter</code> type OSGi services with the following service registration properties:</p>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.webconsole.title</code></p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The title under which to display the Configuration Printer</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.webconsole.configprinter.modes</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The Configuration Printer modes supported.
This may be one or more of the values <code>web</code>, <code>zip</code>, or <code>txt</code>.
Alternatively the value <code>always</code> my be used to indicate support for all modes.</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Deprecated synonym for the <code>felix.webconsole.configprinter.modes</code> property.</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>felix.webconsole.configprinter.web.unescaped</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock"><code>false</code></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Property indicating whether output generated in <code>web</code> mode is HTML (<code>true</code>) or plain text to be escaped for web rendering (<code>false</code>).</p></td>
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<h2 id="_integration_with_the_apache_felix_web_console"><a class="anchor" href="#_integration_with_the_apache_felix_web_console"></a>Integration with the Apache Felix Web Console</h2>
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<p>The Inventory Printer framework has first class integration with the Apache Felix Web Console.
Each <code>InventoryPrinter</code> service is registered as a plugin in the <code>Inventory</code> category of the Web Console.</p>
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<p>To prevent an Invetory Printer from being registered in the Web Console, the <code>felix.inventory.printer.webconsole</code> service registration property must be set to <code>false</code>.</p>
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<h2 id="_integration_with_the_apache_felix_gogo_shell"><a class="anchor" href="#_integration_with_the_apache_felix_gogo_shell"></a>Integration with the Apache Felix Gogo Shell</h2>
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<p>Gogo Shell integration is not implemented in the first version of the Apache Felix Inventory Printer module.</p>
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<p>See the issue <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4065">FELIX-4065 Provide Gogo Shell integration for InventoryPrinter services</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="_issues"><a class="anchor" href="#_issues"></a>Issues</h2>
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<p>Should you have any questions using the Inventory Printer, please send a note to one of our link:{{ refs.mailinglists.path }}[Mailing Lists].</p>
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<p>Please report any issues with the Inventory Printer in our issue tracking system (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/Felix">JIRA</a>) and be sure to report for the <em>Inventory</em> component.
See our link:{{ refs.issue-tracking.path }}[Issue Tracking] page for more details.</p>
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