Then someone should fix the metatype….. david jencks
> On Sep 14, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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 > > <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 > <mailto:david.a.jen...@gmail.com>>: > > > On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Leschke, Scott <slesc...@medline.com > > <mailto: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 > > <mailto:david.a.jen...@gmail.com>] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:35 PM > > To: user@karaf.apache.org <mailto: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 > > <mailto: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 <mailto:gno...@redhat.com> > Web: http://fusesource.com <http://fusesource.com/> > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ <http://gnodet.blogspot.com/> >
