xdg-open does not open link when java is staged

[Matthew Aguirre]

I have not been able to use xdg-open to open up a link in an application in yakkety.
1) One thing is that xdg-open is in /usr/local/bin in the ubuntu-core snap and isn't in the default path for a snap package.

2) If I add the openjdk-8-jre package as a stage-package, xdg-open no longer works.

name: torgo
version: 1.3.2
summary: A Logo interpreter written in Java.
description: A Logo interpreter written in Java.
grade: stable

confinement: strict

apps:
  testsite:
    command: bin/wrapper0
    plugs: [home, x11, opengl, unity7]

  torgo-files:
    plugin: dump
    source: .
    stage-packages:
      - openjdk-8-jre
    organize:
      ../build/wrapper0: bin/

Here is my wrapper0 file:

#!/bin/bash

export XDG_DATA_HOME=$SNAP/usr/share
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

xdg-open http://tros.org/torgo

Here is my output from running torgo.testsite:

dbus-send: /snap/torgo/x1/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3: version `LIBDBUS_PRIVATE_1.10.6' not found (required by dbus-send)

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

Looking at the current state of things:

1) The special implementation of xdg-open is in /usr/bin/xdg-open now
2) Perhaps java is pulling in the "real" xdg-open which is clashing.

Perhaps as a way out of this issue, xdg-open should be upstreamed and merged with the regular version. If operation in snaps is detected it could simply use the IPC mechanism.

I think this is something for either foundations or snapd to investigate, marking as confirmed.