On Friday 20 February 2015 17:53:02 Marius Petria wrote: > Hi, hi Marius,
> I discovered an issue related to service users. Due to the indeterminism > of OSGI a consumer of ServiceUserMapper cannot be sure that > getServiceUserID will find a registered mapping even if that mapping has > been configured. For example if a component starts roughly at the same > time as the mapping is installed it can happen that the calls the > component makes to loginService to fail. More concretely that can happen > for example if one needs a session in an activate method to register jcr > event listener, or to read some configuration properties from the > repository. > > In order to make this behavior more predictable I created an issue [1] > proposing to always register an osgi service (I called it > ServiceUserMapping) right after a mapping is installed, such that consumer > components can reference it and wait for the mapping to be available. I > also worked out an implementation in [2]. > > First, I would like to ask you if you think the problem is valid and if > the approach is correct? > Second, it will be really helpful if you can also comment on the issue > around the provided implementation. I hadn't the time to look into the implementation but I have this use case right now. A service user mapping and a bundle with a service which relies on this mapping are deployed in a (AEM) package - service fails because of mapping not yet available when service gets activated. A ServiceUserMapping service as reference would solve this problem. So +1 for this approach and the name ServiceUserMapping. Regards, O. > Marius > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4312 > [2] https://github.com/mpetria/sling/compare/mpetria:trunk...dev-SLING-4312 >
