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Felix Meschberger commented on FELIX-3377:
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> ExtComponentContext.setServiceProperties and the return Dictionary value from
> activate and update
> replace the service registration properties rather than update the values
> calculated by some other method.
Yes
> calling ExtComponentContext.setServiceProperties from within an activate or
> modify method would
> have the same effect as returning the service properties from the method
Yes. If both are done -- calling setServiceProperties and return Dictionary,
the latter would overwrite/replace the former.
> In order to avoid "arguments" over whether config admin or the component sets
> the service properties,
> the update method would recalculate the service properties when config admin
> changes them and
> reset what it wants either through a return value or calling
> ExtComponentContext.setServiceProperties.
IMHO configuration admin properties are primarily to configure the component
and are also (kind of secondarily) used to set the service properties. Both
make sense, of course. But if we think a component should be able to set its
own service properties, it should probably be able to do so completely but
without "disturbing" its own configuration.
Thus:
#1 Component propertiesa are default configuration for the component
#2 Config Admin enhances, extends, overwrites default configuration for the
component
#3 By default this set of properties is used as service properties (except
private properties starting with ".")
#4 The component may overwrite the properties from #3 by returning a Dictionary
from activate or modified or by calling setServiceProperties
In practice, I would assume a component to take the properties received from
the DS runtime (either ComponentContext.getProperties or the Map passed to the
activate or modified method) modify it and use the result to call setProperties
or return from activate.
I might be conceivable, though to be slightly "strange" in the API:
(1) activate and modified may return Map<String, Object> for the service
properties. This would be inline with the DS 1.1 option to get the
configuration passed as a Map into the methods
(2) setServiceProperties would take a Dictionary<String, Object> for the
service properties. This would be inline with the original
ComponentContext.getProperties method.
WDYT ?
> Allow a component to update its own service properties
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>
> Key: FELIX-3377
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3377
> Project: Felix
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Declarative Services (SCR)
> Affects Versions: scr-1.6.0
> Reporter: David Jencks
> Attachments: FELIX-3377-2.diff, FELIX-3377.diff
>
>
> If you just register a service in code, you can give the ServiceRegistration
> to the service and it can update its service properties to reflect what it
> can discover about its environment. This proposes that services registered
> through DS should be able to do this too, by calling an
> updateProperties(Dictionary) method on the ComponentContext. (Since we'd
> need a spec update to add the method to ComponentContext, I added a new
> interface that ComponentContextImpl implements).
> Right now a service could get Config Admin and modify the properties there,
> but then (a) the update method is called even though the component itself
> initiated the changes and (b) the new property values are persisted which is
> presumably not desired.
> According to the spec config admin properties override default property
> values specified in the component xml. I think that in order to reduce
> confusion, once a property has been set through config admin it should not be
> possible to update it through this update method. This also makes
> implementing this idea easy.
> IIUC this idea does not make sense for component factories.
> This idea was originally suggested by Erin Schnabel in OSGI bug 2250.
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