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Clement Escoffier commented on FELIX-1114:
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Hi, 

There is not such method right now. But for the time being you can inject your 
properties inside a Dictionary or a Map. The setter method of this property 
will be called when a reconfiguration occurs. 
However this solution does not work with the configuration admin as config 
admin's configuration does not support map/dictionary properties.

I agree that such kind of method can be useful. But a couple of questions need 
to be answered before:

1) What kind of argument do you need in the updated method ? It will makes 
sense to push all the properties like:
@Updated
public void updatedConfiguration(Dictionary properties)
{
  // put changed configuration in use
}

2) Should this method be called at each configuration and reconfiguration (so, 
both at the beginning and at each reconfiguration) ? 


IMHO, such method must not create a POJO object if none exist, so it means that 
the method will be called after every configuration/reconfiguration only if a 
pojo object exist or wait for an object creation (and then be called ).

Clement


> callback after configuration change needed
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-1114
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1114
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: iPOJO
>    Affects Versions: iPOJO-1.2.0
>            Reporter: Ron Koerner
>
> It often occurs that a configuration/property change requires some work to be 
> done. If only a single property is affected method injection can be used.
> If multiple properties are changed and these changes are kind of an atomic 
> transaction, there is no (sensible) way to tell the service to use the new 
> values.
> Imagine a service listening on a port and writing the output to a file. The 
> service has the two string properties "port" and "file". When the service is 
> validated, it opens a listening port and a writable file according to the 
> properties. Now imagine it is either dangerous to have a port input written 
> to the wrong file or opening ports and files is very costly or there is 
> already an object doing the work for us but it needs to be constructed with 
> port number and filename and cannot be changed at runtime. Therefore we 
> cannot use method injection like
> @Property(name="port")
> public void setPort(String port)
> {
>    incomingSocket.close();
>    incomingSocket=new IncomingSocket(port);
> }
> because that is costly and leaves the possibility to have things written to 
> the wrong file.
> Therefore something like
> @Updated
> public void updatedConfiguration()
> {
>   // put changed configuration in use
> }
> is needed. The method annotated with @Updated (or specified in XML) is to 
> called after all the configuration changes are done.
> Right now, the only way is to stop and start the service since only one 
> ManagedService per PID is recognized by ConfigurationAdmin.

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