[jira] [Commented] (ARIES-957) SPIFly: Service Providers ignored if bundle is not active

["Kyle Stiemann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Kyle Stiemann commented on ARIES-957:
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I believe the only way to work around this issue is to add the following header to SPI service provider bundles:

{code}
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy;includes="package.of.my.service.impl"
{code}

> SPIFly: Service Providers ignored if bundle is not active
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARIES-957
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-957
>             Project: Aries
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>         Environment: o.a.a.spifly.dynamic.bundle - 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
> Eclipse 4.2
>            Reporter: Kevin Milburn
>            Priority: Major
>
> Bundles which provide services (through SPI-Provides or Provide-Capability) are not processed unless the bundle is activated, requiring explicity activation rather than lazy activation.
> The providerBundleTracker in BaseActivator should track Installed, Resolved, Starting and Active bundles (same as the consumerBundleTracker).
> With the ProviderBundleTrackerCustomizer as it current works,  calls to bundle.getBundleContext() may result in a null pointer if the bundle is not active.   
> With Eclipse, a bundle with the Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy will become actived while processing the services (e.g. on bundle.loadClass()), resulting in a valid bundleContext.  Bundles without this header will return null.



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