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Carsten Ziegeler closed SLING-1923.
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> Improve the (internal) resource handling
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> Key: SLING-1923
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1923
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Installer
> Affects Versions: Installer Core 3.0.0
> Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
> Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
> Fix For: Installer Core 3.1.0
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> The current resource handling has some drawbacks - one is that a resource is
> always copied into the local data store even if it did not change; another
> one is that integrating new concepts like the resource transformer etc is
> difficult and error prone.
> The first thing we should change is the resource types, currently we have
> CONFIG and BUNDLE - this assumes that the client knows what resources it is
> providing - however it is not the task of the client to decide this; in many
> cases the client has even not the knowledge about it. Therefore we should
> introduce two new resource types PROPERTIES and FILE.
> However, if the client really knows what it is dealing with, it can use one
> of the two new types OSGI_BUNDLE or OSGI_CONFIG - we introduce these new
> types, to be more compatible - the old constants CONFIG and BUNDLE will be
> deprecated and aliases for PROPERTIES and FILE!
> When a new resource provider is registering itself or an update of resources
> takes place, merging of resources should be done immediately - the sync first
> does some general sanity checks on the incoming data and then uses URL and
> digest of the data to check for updates/removes. If a resource with the same
> URL and digest is already available, it is assumed to be the same and no
> further processing is required! This avoids unnecessary copies.
> We further decide between incoming resource type (usually PROPERTIES or FILE)
> and processing resource type. The new resource transformer services are
> responsible for this transformation (maybe in combination with data
> transformation). A resource transformer can omit one or more resources with
> resource type and data.
> If a resource has a processing resource type, this resource is used to be
> processed by the osgi installer task factories. As long as the resource has
> no processing resource type, it is not processed.
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