OSGi: Inclusion of Jackson introduces requirement for jersey-server

[aleksi-kangas]

I am trying to use Jackson with a shared ObjectMapper configuration on both server and client. In OSGi environment, it seems that inclusion of jersey-media-json-jackson introduces a requirement for jersey-server dependency.

The cause to me seems to be that jersey-media-json-jackson has a dependency to jersey-entity-filtering. The META-INF/MANIFEST.MFin jersey-entity-filtering seems to declare Import-Package to packages exported by the jersey-server bundle.

The maven-bundle-plugin configuration in jersey-entity-filtering/pom.xml:

<configuration>
    <instructions>
        <Export-Package>org.glassfish.jersey.message.filtering.*;version=${project.version}</Export-Package>
        <Import-Package>
            ${jakarta.annotation.osgi.version},
            ${jakarta.rest.osgi.version},
            *
        </Import-Package>
    </instructions>
    <unpackBundle>true</unpackBundle>
</configuration>

and dependencies of jersey-entity-filtering:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
            <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-test-framework-core</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

My understanding is that the *-import resolves also server (+ client?) packages. Is this intended?

Dependencies used:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-entity-filtering</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.2</version>
</dependency>