[jira] Commented: (FELIX-1996) Console should warn when config is bound to a different bundle

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

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Felix Meschberger commented on FELIX-1996:
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Actually, if the boundle with the bundle location to which the configuration is bound has been uninstalled, the configuration admin support of the current (Rev. 918988) trunk locates another bundle providing a description of the configuration. If found, that description is used to render the configuration.

Thus, it makes sense, that in such a situation the bundle has been uninstalled and re-installed with a different bundle location. Thus informing about the bundle location mismatch makes perfect sense.

The user can then still unbind the configuration from the old location and then save the configuration to have it bound to the bundle at the new location.

> Console should warn when config is bound to a different bundle
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-1996
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1996
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Web Console
>    Affects Versions: webconsole-2.0.4
>            Reporter: Bertrand Delacretaz
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Working on upgrades of an OSGi-based system, which include moving services from one bundle to another for refactoring purposes, I had several cases where the console didn't display configuration values correctly, because the configuration was bound to a different bundle (B) than the one (A) where the corresponding service comes from. 
> Usually because the service that uses the config used to be in bundle A, but was moved to bundle B.
> The symptoms are either no fields or values shown on the configuration page at all, or all name/value pairs displayed in a single textarea instead of individual fields.
> IIUC that's because the webconsole cannot access the metadata about the configuration fields anymore in this case. 
> If that's correct, it would be good to have a warning on the configuration page when that happens, to help troubleshooting such cases.

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