Eclipse RCP on OS X 26.6 does not allow camera access (e.g. opencv development)

[col-panic]

I want to share a fact we found out:

Starting with OS X 26.6 it is not possible to access the camera device when developing within Eclipse. This is due to the OS X Gatekeeper which requires specific access rights for Apps.

There are two files involved

• Eclipse.app and
• Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist

We have both the Entitlements the App is granted, which can be listed with
codesign -d --entitlements - Eclipse.app
and the keys in Info.plist which can be listed with
plutil -p Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist

In order to have access to the camera device when developing a respective app, we miss the entitlement
<key>com.apple.security.device.camera</key><true/>
and the Info.plist entry
NSCameraUsageDescription

It is possible to patch an existing Eclipse installation to manually add these rights using

• usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :NSCameraUsageDescription string For Development purposes" Contents/Info.plist and
• codesign --force --deep --options runtime --entitlements entitlements.plist --sign - Eclipse.app/
  the resulting Eclipse.app now bound to the local installation and not usable on another system.

Maybe the respective right should become a part of the default Eclipse installation?