Thanks David, that's great information. Let me try to explain what I've witnessed in another way to see if that is something you would have expected:
* When a factory component has a reference, which cannot be _immediately_ resolved at the moment of activation, it will fail. * However, when setting felix:persistentFactoryComponent="true" the component behaves as any other component which might have an unresolved reference, resulting in deferred activation only upon satisfaction of the reference. Would you consider that inline with the intent? (I certainly hope so :D because that's what I'm looking for.) Ray On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:54 AM David Jencks <david.a.jen...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is my recollection from the distant past, it could be wrong in > several ways. > > IIRC if you have a factory component, when you call it to create a > component the properties are a mix of the factory component’s properties > and the ones you supply. > > Furthermore, the spec says if you change the factory component’s > properties, all the previously created instances are immediately disposed > of. If the manually created component instances are used as dependencies > this might not be what you want. > > So, IIRC, setting this property changes the behavior when you change the > factory properties so the created instances are not automatically disposed > of. > > I thought I’d documented all the non-standard behaviors I implemented, but > this certainly isn’t in the .md. > > David Jencks > > > On Apr 25, 2023, at 6:56 AM, Raymond Augé <raymond.a...@liferay.com.INVALID> > wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > Could someone explain what it means to use > > > > felix:persistentFactoryComponent="true" > > > > As in: > > > > <components xmlns:scr="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/scr/v1.1.0"; > > > > xmlns:felix="http://felix.apache.org/xmlns/scr/extensions/v1.0.0";> > > > > > > <scr:component name="factory.component" > > > > felix:persistentFactoryComponent="true" > > > > enabled="false" > > > > factory="factory.component.factory" > > > > > <implementation class=" > > org.apache.felix.scr.integration.components.SimpleComponent" /> > > > > </scr:component> > > > > ... > > > > -- > > *Raymond Augé* (@rotty3000) > > Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* (@Liferay) > > OSGi Fellow, Java Champion > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org > > -- *Raymond Augé* (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* (@Liferay) OSGi Fellow, Java Champion
