David Jencks created FELIX-4507: ----------------------------------- Summary: [DS] "persistent" factory components Key: FELIX-4507 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4507 Project: Felix Issue Type: New Feature Components: Declarative Services (SCR) Affects Versions: scr-1.8.0 Reporter: David Jencks Assignee: David Jencks Fix For: scr-1.8.2
The lifecycle constraints of factory components make them generally useless. This introduces a different kind of factory component where: - the componentFactory service is always registered irrespective of whether any references are available - the components created by newInstance act like regular components created by config admin factory pids; the component is present whether or not references are available and the instance comes and goes as references come and go. Calling dispose removes the component. - a modify method is added to the ComponentInstance returned from newInstance. (the ComponentInstance implements a new, extension, interface with the modify method) There are some consequences, such as ComponentInstance.getInstance() may return null and may not always return the same object. This behavior can be turned on for a particular component with a "extension" attribute in the component descriptor xmlns:felix="http://felix.apache.org/xmlns/scr/extensions/v1.0.0" felix:persistentFactoryComponent="true" -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)