Renaming of OSGi service having only private properties (no metatype)

[Konrad Windszus <ko...@gmx.de>]

Are there any versioning policies for renaming an OSGi service implementation class which does not have any public properties (i.e. no metatype resource)?
In this case I would like to rename the classes below https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/contrib/extensions/resourcemerger/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/resourcemerger/impl/picker.
Can I just do that given that there is only a very slight chance that those properties have been overwritten by someone?
Thanks,
Konrad

Re: Renaming of OSGi service having only private properties (no metatype)

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

Hi Konrad,

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 13:48 +0200, Konrad Windszus wrote:
> Are there any versioning policies for renaming an OSGi service
> implementation class which does not have any public properties (i.e.
> no metatype resource)?
> In this case I would like to rename the classes below https://github.
> com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/contrib/extensions/resourcemerger/src/mai
> n/java/org/apache/sling/resourcemerger/impl/picker.
> Can I just do that given that there is only a very slight chance that
> those properties have been overwritten by someone?

I think that you should be able to set the component name to the old
class name, just to be safe in case someone is using configuration for
these components.

Robert