[jira] [Commented] (FELIX-3713) Bundle.start() returns without starting the bundle

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

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TangYong commented on FELIX-3713:
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I think that the problem needs to be fixed in felix, I offer a real use case as following:

On glassfish starting, there is a Start Level thread to adjust Start Level, in the process of executing the Start Level thread, I have a bundle tracker to trace some bundle to start the bundle in order to finish something. I used bundle.start(Bundle.START_TRANSIENT) to start the bundle while tracing the bundle. However, the bundle's activator was not executed. If I used  bundle.start() method to start the bundle while tracing the bundle, although the bundle's activator was executed, the bundle's ondemand starting(on some cases, the bundle maybe started by other handling logic) disappeared because bundle.start() method keeped bundle's state persisted.

So, I wish that felix team can fix it.

Thanks.
--Tang
                
> Bundle.start() returns without starting the bundle
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-3713
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3713
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Framework
>    Affects Versions: framework-4.0.2
>            Reporter: Sahoo
>             Fix For: framework-4.2.0
>
>
> See email exchange between Sahoo & Richard that happened in dev alias on 16th Oct 2012 for issue details:
> > While investigating some issues in GlassFish, what we are seeing is that even if our code is calling bundle.start(START_TRANSIENT), the bundle is not getting started immediately, nor is the code blocking. It simply returns without Bundle's activator getting called and bundle.getState() == RESOLVED. We see this happening when there is a start level change in progress. We are currently using Felix 4.0.2. Looking at the code, I see this to be by design, but isn't it a non-compliant behavior? Should bundle.start() not wait until the bundle is started?
> The spec has always been a little lenient about how start levels are processed to give leeway to the frameworks. For us, we viewed this as somewhat of a race condition between threads starting bundles and the start level thread.
> However, in the transient case, I wouldn't expect it to remain in RESOLVED state. If its start level wasn't met, it should have thrown an exception. Yet there is a chance in the transient case that it could start asynchronously...not sure if this would really be problematic for you or not...
> But it shouldn't remain in the RESOLVED state. Looking at the code, I think there is a bug in this scenario where a transient bundle that is handled asynchronously will not actually end up getting started since the start level thread checks the persistent state of the bundle, which is not set for transient bundles.
> You could definitely open up a bug for this last issue...
> -> richard

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