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Björn Bength commented on CAMEL-3143:
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Hello Claus,

I'm a colleague of Claes, 
This ticket (as I assume you understand) is not related directly to Dozer. The 
same null pointer is encountered for me
when i try to explicitly add type converters and fallback converters using java 
code in our routebuilders in servicemix 4.3.


About dozer:
I can confirm that Dozer could be simpler to use in OSGi but we currently have 
it running in a few bundles in camel contexts 
in ServiceMix 4.2 with mapping files. 
An upgrade to ServiceMix 4.3 encountered this problem that Claes did work 
around . However, as you you know,
the camel and osgi refactoring last time around seems to have hidden a few 
camel osgi packages as private, which means that, with this workaround we need 
access to these hidden osgi classes. But thats another story..




> OsgiDefaultCamelContext.getTypeConverterRegistry() returns null 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CAMEL-3143
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/CAMEL-3143
>             Project: Apache Camel
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: osgi
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
>            Reporter: Claes Redestad
>            Assignee: Claus Ibsen
>             Fix For: 2.5.0
>
>
> The showed up when using dozer as shown in 
> http://camel.apache.org/dozer-type-conversion.html, whose 
> DozerTypeConverterLoader tries to get the type converter registry using: 
> {{{TypeConverterRegistry registry = 
> camelContext.getTypeConverterRegistry();}}}
> Plausible error:
> {code:title=OsgiDefaultCamelContext.java}
>    @Override
>     protected TypeConverter createTypeConverter() {
>         return new OsgiTypeConverter(bundleContext, getInjector());
>     }
> {code}
> {code:title=DefaultCamelContext.java}
> public TypeConverterRegistry getTypeConverterRegistry() {
>         if (typeConverterRegistry == null) {
>             // init type converter as its lazy
>             if (typeConverter == null) {
>                 getTypeConverter();
>             }
>             // type converter is usually the default one that also is the 
> registry
>             if (typeConverter instanceof DefaultTypeConverter) {
>                 typeConverterRegistry = (DefaultTypeConverter) typeConverter;
>             }
>         }
>         return typeConverterRegistry;
>     }
> {code}
> Error:
> getTypeConverter() returns an OsgiTypeConverter 
> OsgiTypeConverter does not inherit from DefaultTypeConverter, thus the 
> instanceof returns false
> => null is returned
> Solution:
> Lots of different ways to do this, and it's getting late here. In this case, 
> maybe it's OsgiDefaultCamelContext's responsibility to also override 
> getTypeConverterRegistry with something along the lines of:
> {code}
> @Override
> public TypeConverterRegistry getTypeConverterRegistry() {
>         if (typeConverterRegistry == null) {
>             // init type converter as its lazy
>             if (typeConverter == null) {
>                 getTypeConverter();
>             }
>             // type converter is usually the default one that also is the 
> registry
>             if (typeConverter instanceof OsgiDefaultTypeConverter) {
>                 typeConverterRegistry = ((OsgiDefaultTypeConverter) 
> typeConverter).getRegistry();
>             }
>         }
>         return typeConverterRegistry;
>     }
> {code}
> We've employed an (ugly) workaround in a local version of 
> DozerTypeConverterLoader.java:
> {code:java}
>         TypeConverter typeConverter = camelContext.getTypeConverter();
>         DefaultTypeConverter registry = null;
>         if (typeConverter instanceof DefaultTypeConverter) {
>             registry = (DefaultTypeConverter)typeConverter;
>         } else if (typeConverter instanceof OsgiTypeConverter) {
>             OsgiTypeConverter osgiTypeConverter = 
> (OsgiTypeConverter)typeConverter;
>             registry = osgiTypeConverter.getRegistry();
>         }
> {code}

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