[jira] Commented: (FELIX-702) ClassCastException on BundleActivator when deploying bundle with OBR

["Richard S. Hall (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Richard S. Hall commented on FELIX-702:
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I remember now that this issue is related to a patch that was applied in:

    http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-285

This patch changed the OBR resolver so that it would favor updating locally installed packages if there were updates available, where before it would only update packages if it was necessary.

At the time when this patch was applied, there was no clear argument either way, although you can see from my comments that I was not overly enthusiastic about it. Is this current scenario an example of why this policy is bad or is this just an aberrant example?

> ClassCastException on BundleActivator when deploying bundle with OBR
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>
>                 Key: FELIX-702
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-702
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Bundle Repository (OBR)
>            Reporter: Guillaume Sauthier
>
> I fall on this issue yesterday.
> I was using a Felix compiled with the org.osgi.framework;version=1.3.0 (OSGi R4.0), compiled before the R4.1 API were released.
> Then, I updated my working copy of Felix, and I did a mvn install. So I have compiled the OSGi R4.1 API and placed it in my ~/.m2/repository.xml (thanks to the maven-bundle-plugin).
> Now, what happen on the execution side ?
> I understood (reading some recent mails) that the OBR, if it finds a more recent version of a package already installed, will install it.
> Nice behavior, but the core packages (I think the ones that comes from the System bundle) should be excluded from the update list.
> At least, I had a problem with the org.osgi.framework package.
> It is exported in version 1.3.0 from the System bundle, but OBR downloaded a newer bundle (org.osgi.core:1.2.0) that contains the same package in version 1.4.0.
> It is downloaded as a dependency computed by OBR when installing a classic bundle (no import requirements on a specific org.osgi.framework version), so the primary installed bundle ends up to be linked to the org.osgi.core bundle.
> Finally, when Felix try to activate that bundle, it fails with a ClassCastException, because the BundleActivator interface used by the starting bundle is from the org.osgi.core ClassLoader and because Felix expects the BundleActivator interfaces that comes from the System bundle.
> I know this is really a border case situation, because I updated my felix sources at the wrong time and I did not relaunch my Felix gateway to use the latest org.osgi.framework package version. But anyway, the bug/issue is there ...
> Any idea to solve it ?

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