I agree with BJ, I would prefer to fail fast instead of ending up with
serialized BundleEvents that have no meaning.

Tom




                                                                       
  From:       BJ Hargrave/Austin/IBM@IBMUS                             
                                                                       
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  Date:       08/04/2011 12:00 PM                                      
                                                                       
  Subject:    Re: [osgi-dev] BundleEvent and others extend EventObject even     
though  they aren't serializable
                                                                       





> to Bundle objects, which themselves are serializable

I think Richard means *not* serializable.

>  declare these two fields as transient

While this will technically make the object serializable, deserializing
will produce a meaningless object since it will not have any bundle
objects. I think this is wrong. It is better that the object fails to
serialize so people realize fast that the object cannot be properly
serialized.
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From:        "Richard S. Hall" <[email protected]>
To:        OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]>
Date:        2011/08/04 12:32
Subject:        Re: [osgi-dev] BundleEvent and others extend EventObject
even though        they aren't serializable
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The issue is that BundleEvent is a concrete class that has two references
to Bundle objects, which themselves are serializable. So you run into
issues if you actually try to serialize a BundleEvent. The only potential
solution is to modify the standard BundleEvent class impl to declare these
two fields as transient in the next spec release.

-> richard

On 8/4/11 11:16, Martin Petzold wrote:
BundleEvent extends EventObject and thus implements Serializable [1], did
you perhaps mean org.osgi.service.event.Event. Would be great to have
org.osgi.service.event.Event serializable. I had some problems about this
while implementing a remote event admin some time ago.

[1] http://www.osgi.org/javadoc/r4v43/org/osgi/framework/BundleEvent.html

Thanks,

Martin

Am 04.08.2011 17:08, schrieb [email protected]:
EventObject implements Serializable so any class extending it should be
serializable as well.  However, BundleEvent and others are not serialiable
and as I understand are not intended to be.

Any chance the base class will change or am I stuck with this?  I would
rather not have special logic which ignore these types of object when
sending them through RMI (or other times serializing is involved).

Thanks,
David Humeniuk




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