Actually and fwiw, FileInstall registers a ManagedServiceFactory, not a ManagedService. See https://github.com/apache/felix/blob/trunk/fileinstall/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/fileinstall/internal/FileInstall.java#L342
2016-09-14 21:15 GMT+02:00 David Jencks <david.a.jen...@gmail.com>: > > > On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Leschke, Scott <slesc...@medline.com> > wrote: > > > > Like I said, fileinstall was just used as an example. I’m not really > interested in fileinstall although as far as I understand, if there are > mulitiple org.apache.felix.fileinstall_*.cfg files, say > org.apache.felix.fileinstall_1.cfg and org.apache.felix.fileinstall_2.cfg > there will be one service created for each .cfg file. Perhaps the > terminology I used was incorrect, but that was what I intended. > > I don’t think your understanding is correct. The metatype for fileinstall > shows a pid, not a factory pid, so you should only be able to create one > fileinstall instance. However, although fileinstall is a bad example, what > you want to do is reasonable. > > > > Assuming that’s correct, the question is basically how you would be able > to identify the configuration/service pair. I gather from your response > that this really isn’t possible without augmenting the configuration with > ID information or using a more explicit Managed Service Factory. Is that > correct? > > I don’t understand how you are creating the configurations in the first > place. If you are doing it by writing out files for fileinstall to read, > then it looks like you can use a fileinstall-installed property. If you are > creating the configs in code using config admin, it’s not clear to me > whether or not fileinstall saves them. In this case how do you expect to > tell the configs apart unless you include some kind if id you can recognize? > > From a cursory inspection of fileinstall, it looks to me as if it includes > the original file name in the configuration with the key > “felix.fileinstall.filename” so you could use that as the id. I don’t > understand what you mean by “more explicit Managed Service Factory”. > > So the filter to ca.listConfigurations would look like > > (&(service.factoryPid=<factorypid>)(felix.fileinstall.filename=< > filename>)) > > david jencks > > > > Scott > > > > From: David Jencks [mailto:david.a.jen...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:35 PM > > To: user@karaf.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Configuration Admin > > > > I doubt I understand your question as written, as fileinstall has a pid > rather than a factory pid you can only have one configuration for it. > > > > Assuming you actually want to configure multiple configurations for a > given factory pid, > > - I’d advise you to write a management agent that uses the config admin > interfaces rather than trying to deal directly with the particular storage > format fileinstall happens to use right now. > > - I’d include a meaningful id in your configurations that let you > identify which is which. I actually thought fileinstall made this easy or > required it, but I don’t use fileinstall and could be wrong. > > - you can construct a filter including the id to retrieve the > configuration of interest from config admin. > > > > In osgi R7 it’s extremely likely that this will be easier as it’s > proposed that you can create a factory configuration using a known factory > pid and known id and the resulting pid will include the id. > > > > hope this helps… > > david jencks > > > > On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:23 AM, Leschke, Scott <slesc...@medline.com> > wrote: > > > > Not specifically a Karaf question but I’ll start here. > > > > If I would like to be able to modify the component instance > configurations (created from a factory) programmatically, but from the CA > api, it’s unclear to me how I associate a configuration record to its > corresponding instance? > > > > As an example, if I have multiple configurations of > org.apache.felix.fileinstall and I want to modify a specific configuration > programitically, how do I associate the configuration record with the > proper configuration (.cfg file)? This isn’t my actual use case but for > explanatory purposes it works. > > > > Scott > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Red Hat, Open Source Integration Email: gno...@redhat.com Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
