.. pray there isn't multi version, or mutli-instance support for this type
of extender.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Raymond Auge <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Tim and Neil,
>
> Are you both suggesting that it's better to do the following?
>
> The manifest file contains:
>
> Web-ContextPath: /blah
>
>
> The component contains:
>
> @Reference(target = "(osgi.web.contextpath=/blah)")
> protected void setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext) { ... }
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Raymond Auge <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ray, to quote two sentences from your email:
>>>
>>> * "I want the thing that was built for me specifically”
>>> * "I never talked about coupling providers to consumers.”
>>>
>>
>>> These two statements are in direct contradiction with each other!
>>>
>>
>> If there is coupling, it's coupling I specifically want, and it lives
>> inside my bundle! So what's the issue?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> To be honest this doesn’t sound like a job for the service registry, but
>>> instead Java’s “new” keyword…
>>>
>>
>> You've missed the point! It's someone else who already created the thing
>> I need! However, it still belongs to me!
>>
>> Please see my examples.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 Mar 2015, at 15:38, Raymond Auge <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Tim Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ray,
>>>>
>>>> Using the bundle id feels more like a workaround for a missing feature
>>>> of the extender.
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it make more sense for the metadata processed by the extender
>>>> publish a property to filter on, and/or to have the service published by
>>>> the extender respond to config admin in the same way that DS components do?
>>>>
>>>> If, for example, the extendee asked for the property
>>>> "mySuperCoolProperty=awesome" to be applied to the extender registered
>>>> service then that could be used in the filter.
>>>>
>>>
>>> that won't work because neither do you know the value of the property at
>>> build time, nor in this case do you want to change the value during
>>> configuration. I want the thing that was built for me specifically... the
>>> only unique value that I know about is bundleId.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ideally the target filter would be set using config admin to maximise
>>>> the reusability of the bundle (for example in an environment without the
>>>> extender where another service should be used).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Config admin implies human responsibility and in this case I don't want
>>> humans involved.
>>>
>>> I can create a contrived example of this using current OSGi pieces.
>>>
>>> I have a bundle, it uses both gemini blueprint and DS.
>>>
>>> How can I tell the DS component to get my instance of
>>> org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext? I can't without
>>> manually implementing a ServiceTracker because the only bits I can filter
>>> on are things you can't know at XML creation time or that you'd never want
>>> to duplicate from the manifest.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> One of the best things about the service registry is decoupling the
>>>> provider from the consumer. I'd try very hard to avoid breaking that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I never talked about coupling providers to consumers.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On 8 Mar 2015, at 14:49, Raymond Auge <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a need for a component to get a service created on behalf of the
>>>> bundle by an extender. There are many such services in the system so what I
>>>> really need is to get a bundle with a filter like so:
>>>>
>>>>         Filter filter = bundleContext.createFilter(
>>>>             "(&(objectClass=" + ExtenderCreatedService.class.getName() +
>>>>                 ")(service.bundleid=" + bundle.getBundleId() + "))");
>>>>
>>>> i.e. get the one created which has my bundleId.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any trick to doing this besides a ServiceTracker which the
>>>> component must manually create and start?
>>>>
>>>> Note the component can't know it's own bundleId at the time of
>>>> generating the XML.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any property parsing happening in the component XML files or
>>>> anything?
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>  (@rotty3000)
>>>> Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com/>
>>>>  (@Liferay)
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