[jira] Commented: (FELIX-2288) Felix SCR API problem/misunderstanding

["Felix Meschberger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Felix Meschberger commented on FELIX-2288:
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Fixed handling of the component ID in the Declarative Services bundle in Rev. 981772: The ID is now only generated and assigned to a component while the component is enabled. To still access components without an assigned ID, ScrService gets a new method getComponent(String name) to access components by their name.

This also increases the version of the SCR management API to 1.6 (Rev. 981782)

> Felix SCR API problem/misunderstanding
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-2288
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2288
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Declarative Services (SCR), Web Console
>            Reporter: Valentin Valchev
>            Priority: Critical
>
> I've been playing with the Components plugin of the Web Console and it work perfectly with the Felix SCR implementation. When I switched to ProSyst/Equinox implementation (they are basically the same) I found a small problem.
> When I disable a component, it's ID becomes -1 and I cannot enable it anymore. As long as I disable components all their IDs becomes -1.
> I opened the OSGi r4.2 specification to see if there is a reason for this behaviour. The JavaDoc for ComponentConstants states for the component ID, that 
> "The value of this property is assigned by the Service Component Runtime when a component configuration is created."
> In part 112.6 Component Properties, the specification says, that 'component.id' property is always added by the SCR but for "Each component configuration".
> When a component is disabled or uninstalled, there is no configuration - it's just a component definition. So the SCR is not required to assign ID.
> As for the Web Console we can easily fix the problem by using the pair bundle + component name for identification, instead of ID. However, since Apache SCR API is becoming recommended OSGi API, it would be better to define a mature and compatible API.

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