Hi all, I'm afraid I sent this message to the wrong list in the first attempt. Please find my feature suggestion below and let me know what you think.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Xander Uiterlinden <xander.uiterlin...@gmail.com> Date: 2011/12/13 Subject: Dependency manager feature suggestion: Allow passing resource attributes to resource adapters To: dev-h...@felix.apache.org Hi all, Currently we're using the dependency manager in our project. A feature we extensively use is the resource adapter. The resource adapter service gets access to a resource through the abstraction of a URL. This is a nice abstraction but raises challenges whenever an implementation requires more properties of the resource, e.g. the last modification date or the encoding. At the moment we're working our way around it by creating implementing a custom URLHandler. It would be nicer if the resource adapter could be provided with a set of optional properties. My suggestion would be to extend the added(URL resource) method of the ResourceHandler with an additional argument holding a untyped set of properties. When provided these will be injected into the resource adapter implementation. Please let me know what you think. Cheers, Xander Uiterlinden
