SCR factory components ignore reference target filters ------------------------------------------------------
Key: FELIX-3090 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3090 Project: Felix Issue Type: Bug Components: Declarative Services (SCR) Affects Versions: scr-1.6.0 Reporter: Pierre De Rop This issue is described in the following post: http://www.mail-archive.com/users@felix.apache.org/msg10925.html Basically, when a component is declaring a factory (in order to register a ComponentFactory in the registry), then any extra Reference' target filters are not taken into acount. This is a problem because the ComponentFactory is registered in the registry even if some References are not satisfied. Consider the following example (It uses the BND SCR annotations): @Component(factory = "AFactory") public class A { @Reference(name="YDependency", target = "(name=Z)") void bind(Y y) { System.out.println("A.bind(" + y + ")"); } @Activate void start() { System.out.println("A.start"); } } public interface Y { } @Component(properties = { "name=ZZZZZ" }) public class YImpl implements Y { } @Component public class AFactory { @Reference(target = "(component.factory=AFactory)") void bind(ComponentFactory AFactory) { System.out.println("AFactory.bind(" + AFactory + ")"); try { ComponentInstance ci = AFactory.newInstance(null); A a = (A) ci.getInstance(); System.out.println("Created " + a); } catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace(); } } } Here, the "YDependency" Reference of the "A" component is not satisfied, but the ComponentFactory for the "A" component is somehow registered, and when the "AFactory" component catches it, then it get the following exception, when trying to instantiate the "A" component instance: org.osgi.service.component.ComponentException: Failed activating component at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ComponentFactoryImpl.newInstance(ComponentFactoryImpl.java:120) at test.scr.factory.AFactory.bind(AFactory.java:15) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.invokeMethod(BaseMethod.java:227) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.access$1(BaseMethod.java:219) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod$Resolved.invoke(BaseMethod.java:591) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod$NotResolved.invoke(BaseMethod.java:548) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.invoke(BaseMethod.java:472) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager.invokeBindMethod(DependencyManager.java:1028) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager.bind(DependencyManager.java:944) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager.open(DependencyManager.java:868) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ImmediateComponentManager.createImplementationObject(ImmediateComponentManager.java:200) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ImmediateComponentManager.createComponent(ImmediateComponentManager.java:118) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager$Unsatisfied.activate(AbstractComponentManager.java:1013) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager.activateInternal(AbstractComponentManager.java:333) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager.enable(AbstractComponentManager.java:157) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.config.ImmediateComponentHolder.enableComponents(ImmediateComponentHolder.java:313) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.BundleComponentActivator.loadDescriptor(BundleComponentActivator.java:253) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.BundleComponentActivator.initialize(BundleComponentActivator.java:147) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.BundleComponentActivator.<init>(BundleComponentActivator.java:111) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.Activator.loadComponents(Activator.java:274) at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.Activator.bundleChanged(Activator.java:192) at org.apache.felix.framework.util.EventDispatcher.invokeBundleListenerCallback(EventDispatcher.java:807) at org.apache.felix.framework.util.EventDispatcher.fireEventImmediately(EventDispatcher.java:729) at org.apache.felix.framework.util.EventDispatcher.fireBundleEvent(EventDispatcher.java:610) at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.fireBundleEvent(Felix.java:3879) at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:1850) at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.setActiveStartLevel(Felix.java:1192) at org.apache.felix.framework.StartLevelImpl.run(StartLevelImpl.java:266) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira