[jira] [Commented] (FELIX-2951) guidelines: felix osgi bundle class load vs Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("")

["Andrei Pozolotin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andrei Pozolotin commented on FELIX-2951:
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the dreaded workaround which we are trying to avoid in osgi bundle code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2198928/better-handling-of-thread-context-classloader-in-osgi

ClassLoader tccl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
try {
    Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(getClass().getClassLoader());
    /*
     * Start threads, or establish connections, here, now
     */
} finally {
    Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(tccl);
} 

> guidelines:   felix osgi bundle class load    vs    Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("")
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-2951
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2951
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Framework
>    Affects Versions: framework-3.2.1
>            Reporter: Andrei Pozolotin
>
> Richard, hello;
> 1) here you say
>       http://old.nabble.com/Can-the-thread-context-classloader-issue-be-solved-at-all--td28260809.html
> that "There is no reliable way to do this since..."
> 2) this project
>       http://pivot.apache.org/index.html
> is using this kind of pattern quite often:
> ImageView ::
>     /**
>      * Sets the image view's image by {@linkplain ClassLoader#getResource(String)
>      * resource name}.
>      *
>      * @param imageName
>      * The resource name of the image to set.
>      *
>      * @see #setImage(URL)
>      */
>     public final void setImage(String imageName) {
>         if (imageName == null) {
>             throw new IllegalArgumentException("imageName is null.");
>         }
>         ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
>         setImage(classLoader.getResource(imageName.substring(1)));
>     }
> 3) instead of trying to work around this inside of felix, can you please provide
> a set of guidelines for developers of projects such as apache pivot,
> so the issue is gone?
> thank you;
> Andrei

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