Hi Christian, That was what i was thinking when i was responding to Peter. But with your response i am more confident that it will work.
Cheers Daghan Sent by MailWise<http://www.mail-wise.com/installation/2> – See your emails as clean, short chats. -------- Original Message -------- From: Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 06:31 PM To: OSGi Developer Mail List <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] DS component life cycle. Whiteboard can work with more than one provider. In your example you simply injected an optional mqttprotocolprovider so it is not clear how you would distinguish them. One simple appraoch is that you give the desired provider a name. You then add this name together with the subscription channel to your service properties. The mqttprotocolprovider can be made to only accept the listeners that match its name. You can even code this in a factory configuration style. So you only have one code for it and can instantiate it several times with different mqtt connection properties. Christian On 14.10.2016 09:15, Daghan ACAY wrote: Hi Peter, This looks great. I thought about white board pattern but problem is this, there is no single mqttProtocolProvider! they are also created through factory configuration and bind to device through configuration. Please see the actual configuration used in application project here. https://github.com/daghanacay/com.easyiot.application/blob/master/com.easyiot.heatmap.application/configuration/configuration.json Correct me if i am wrong but Whiteboard pattern assumes there is only one mqttprotocolprovider. Peter, I still can work with the code that you have explained but still won't be as clean. I am thinking of using service tracker may be in the device but then it is not DS. I think it is an interesting case that might be worthy of you experts time :) PS: please excuse me if i misunderstand you or i am making this something more complicated then it should be. Cheers Daghan Sent by MailWise<http://www.mail-wise.com/installation/2> – See your emails as clean, short chats. -------- Original Message -------- From: Peter Kriens <peter.kri...@aqute.biz><mailto:peter.kri...@aqute.biz> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 05:58 PM To: OSGi Developer Mail List <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org><mailto:osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] DS component life cycle. @Christian: The MQTT client is optional and dynamic. So the activate method cannot be used. You need to subscribe/unsubscribe based on the availability of the mqtt server. @Daghan: Divide and conquer! You’re trying to do multiple responsibilities in one component and that is the antithesis of modularity, also called lack of cohesion. This is a perfect example of how things could get simpler by choosing the right decomposition. The best solution imho is to introduce a second,component. Let the Device component just be a Device, it should not have to worry about Mqtt. After all, you could be connected to other event queues. (It also makes it easier to test.) You made mqtt optional to reflect this. This is exactly the reason the Whiteboard Pattern was invented! This would look like: @Component( property = “subscriptionChannel=” ) public class LT100HDeviceImpl implements Device, TtnMqttMessageListener { // remove the mqtt subscription code but // implement the TtnMqttMessageListener } And the whiteboard component. Notice the _ in the _mqtt field. This ensures it is set before the event method that has a name that will appear in a sorted list later. (References are sorted by name.) (I vaguely recall field references are done before bind methods but this makes it certain.) @Component(immediate=true) public class MQTTWhiteboard { @Reference TtnMqttProtocol _mqtt; @Reference( cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.OPTIONAL, policy = ReferencePolicy.DYNAMIC ) void addMqttListener( TtnMqttMessageListener l, Map<String,Object> props ) { String channel = props.get( “subscriptionChannel” ); if ( channel != null && !channel.isEmpty() ) { _mqtt. subscribe( channel, l ); } void removeMqttListener( TtnMqttMessageListener l, Map<String,Object> props ) { String channel = props.get( “subscriptionChannel” ); if ( channel != null && !channel.isEmpty() ) { _mqtt.unsubscribe( channel ); } } You now created a whiteboard service that can also be used by other Device implementations while significantly reducing the complexity of your implementation. This is why after all those years I still love OSGi … you can only do this when you have dynamic components. As your struggle showed, trying to manage this is quickly becoming quite complex. Whenever you enter in such a struggle, think, lack of cohesion is often your problem. Kind regards, Peter Kriens > > On 14 okt. 2016, at 08:09, Christian Schneider > <ch...@die-schneider.net><mailto:ch...@die-schneider.net> wrote: > > In your case simply inject the ttnMqttClient in the @Reference and do the > subscribe in @Activate when you get the config and the unsubscribe in > @Deactivate. > > Christian > > 2016-10-13 23:00 GMT+02:00 Daghan ACAY > <daghana...@hotmail.com><mailto:daghana...@hotmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I am trying to create a component that is instantiated by ConfigAdmin and > uses multiple references to operate. Basically the component should > instantiate through a factory configuration and use that configuration to set > up its own @Reference s. You can see the code here: > > https://github.com/daghanacay/com.easyiot.device/blob/master/com.easyiot.LT100H.device.provider/src/com/easyiot/LT100H/device/provider/LT100HDeviceImpl.java > > All the mentioned @Reference ed components are instantiated by configuration > as well, so at a given time the @Reference might not be available but my own > component should still work. yet should the Reference available then it > should be injected, basic 0-1 strategy. > > Problem I am facing with the current form of the code is that, the @Reference > injection is happening before the @Activate method is called. This leads to > NPE in the @Reference method due to null configuration. Is it possible to > make this code work such that config is provided to the component before the > dependency injection? > > I have tried annotating the class fields and set them "volatile". I even make > them a list and use the class fields in the activate method this time the > class fields were null due to 0-1 strategy. so I end up with annotating the > methods. > > I might have designed this all wrong, so any help simple or fundamental is > appreciated. > > Regards > > -Daghan > > Sent by MailWise – See your emails as clean, short chats. > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org<mailto:osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > > > -- > -- > Christian Schneider > http://www.liquid-reality.de > > Open Source Architect > http://www.talend.com > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org<mailto:osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org<mailto:osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev -- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Open Source Architect http://www.talend.com
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