[SOLVED] How to change the default command scope in OSGi with GoGo Shell and enforce custom scopes for custom commands?

How to change the default command scope in OSGi with GoGo Shell and enforce custom scopes for custom commands?

I have an OSGi environment which runs on equinox. For the execution of custom comands I use the gogo shell (org.apache.felix.gogo.command, org.apache.felix.gogo.shell).

By default the command scope is set to equinox so the help command does not print anything. If I use felix:help it does print all of the available commands.

How do I switch the default command scope to felix? Is there a way to give the system a startup script which sets that up?

Additionally, how can I force the user to use the scope I introduce in the component property like shown here:

property = {
        "osgi.command.scope=myScope",
        "osgi.command.function=myFunc"
    }

=> I want that the user has to write myScope:myFunc into the shell. Is that possible anyhow?

Thanks for your help :-)

Solution

You can make your own commands since Gogo has closures.

Welcome to Apache Felix Gogo

g! 
g! h = { felix:help }
felix:help
g! h
felix:bundlelevel
felix:cd
felix:frameworklevel 
...

g! $h
felix:help

You can put a startup script in ./etc/gosh_profile, where . is the current working directory.

The SCOPE variable sets up a colon separated path for searching the scopes.

g! SCOPE='felix:*'

Gogo is way more powerful that almost everybody I know thinks. Gogo can basically call any Java function with shell like syntax. You can see some examples here: https://v2archive.enroute.osgi.org/appnotes/gogo.html