Hi David, > This is a gift! :-) It means your code is not handling the dynamics correctly > and now you know it!
I’m not sure that there’s quite enough evidence to come to this conclusion. It could simply be that everything is working fine with a static policy, and working the way that DS is supposed to. In general a DS component being bounced like this is nothing to worry about, it’s just a change rippling through the system, and it’s typically resolved in very short order. If you do want to reason about why, however, then there are several places to look. >> For some reason, the Component gets activated, deactivated, then activated >> again, which is not desirable. >> ... >> 1. How can I figure out why this is happening. I have tried many approaches, >> but can’t seem to get a clue as to why this is happening. Since it generally >> doesn’t seem to happen for other configured components, I am assuming that >> it is not a Configurator problem. From the rest of your email it is clear that the configured component provides a service. This will make it lazy by default. You have also stated that you’re using has a required configuration policy. Therefore it will only be activated when: There is a configuration present All of the mandatory services are satisfied Someone is actually using the service The component will then be deactivated when any of these things are no-longer true, and so this means that your component may be being bounced for several reasons, only one of which is to do with configuration. While it seems unlikely to me, you seem to be fairly convinced that the configuration is at fault so lets start there. Does the generated XML file in your bundle actually say that the configuration is required. This is the configuration used by DS (not the annotations) at runtime. It’s unlikely that this has gone wrong, but it’s an easy check Do you have more than one way of putting configuration into the runtime? If you are also using File Install, or some other configuration management agent, then it’s entirely possible that you’re seeing a configuration update occurring. Do you have multiple configuration bundles which both contain a configuration for this component? The configurator will process these one at a time, and it will result in configuration bouncing Is it possible that something is forcing a re-resolve of your configuration bundle or the configurator? This could easily trigger the configurations to be reprocessed. Now in my view the most likely reason for this behaviour is that the configured component is not being bounced due to a configuration change. The most likely suspect is that the component is simply not being used at that time, and so it is being disposed (DS lazy behaviour). This could easily happen if one of the dependent services that you mention starts using your component, and then is bounced (by a configuration update or whatever) which causes your component to be released. If nobody else is using your component at the time then it will be deactivated and released. The easiest way to verify this is to make your component immediate. This will remove the laziness, and you will get a good idea as to whether the bounce is caused by things that you depend on, or by things that depend on you. If making your component immediate removes the “problem” then it proves that this isn’t a problem at all (and you can then remove the immediate behaviour again). If making your component immediate doesn’t stop the bouncing then the third set of things to check is the list of services that your component depends on. Is it possible that one of them is being bounced due to a configuration update, or perhaps one of their service dependencies being unregistered/re-registered? As I mentioned before, bouncing of DS components is simply the way that updates propagate through the system when services use a static policy. It isn’t inherently a bad thing, but if you want to avoid it you have to be dynamic all the way down the dependency graph. Usually this is a lot more effort than it’s worth! I hope this helps, Tim > On 12 Jul 2018, at 08:39, Peter Kriens via osgi-dev <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> > wrote: > > This is a gift! :-) It means your code is not handling the dynamics correctly > and now you know it! > > The cause is that that the DS starts the components before the Configurator > has done its work. The easiest solution seems to be to use start levels. If > your code CAN handle the dynamics, then this is one of the few legitimate > places where startlevels are useful. I usually oppose it because people do > not handle the dynamics correctly and want a short cut. This is fine until it > is not. And the ‘not’ happens guaranteed one day. So first fix the dynamics, > and then think of solutions that improve the experience. > > For this purpose, enRoute Classic had a > ‘osgi.enroute.configurer.api.ConfigurationDone’ service. If you made an > @Reference to ConfigurationDone then you were guaranteed to not start before > the Configurer had done its magic. Since you did not want to depend on such a > specific service for reasons of cohesion, I developed AggregateState. One of > the aggregated states was then the presence of the ConfigurationDone service. > Although this is also not perfectly cohesive it at least aggregates all the > uncohesive things in one place and it is configurable. > > Although this works the customer still is not completely happy since also the > Aggregate State feels uncohesive. So we’ve been discussing a new angle. I > want to try to make the Configuration Records _transient_. In Felix Config > Admin you can provide a persistence service (and it was recently made > useful). I was thinking of setting a special property in the configuration > (something like ‘:persistence:transient’). The persistence layer would then > _not_ persist it. I.e. after a restart there would be no configuration until > the Configurer sets it. This will (I expect) seriously diminish the bouncing > caused for these kind of components. > > And if you’re asking why I am still on the enRoute classic Configurer. Well, > it has ‘precious’ fields and they solved a nasty problem. We needed to use a > well defined value but if the user set one of those values, we wanted to keep > the user’s value. Quite a common scenario. With `precious` fields you rely on > default values (so no value for a precious field in the configurer’s input) > but copy the previous value to the newer configuration, if present. Works > quite well. > > I think `transient` and `precious` could be nice extensions to the new > Configurator for R8. > > Hope this helps. Kind regards, > > Peter Kriens > >> On 12 Jul 2018, at 00:48, David Leangen via osgi-dev >> <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> wrote: >> >> >> Hi! >> >> A question about component configuration. >> >> I have a component that has a required configuration policy. Using a (pre >> R7) Configurator to configure the component. For some reason, the Component >> gets activated, deactivated, then activated again, which is not desirable. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1. How can I figure out why this is happening. I have tried many approaches, >> but can’t seem to get a clue as to why this is happening. Since it generally >> doesn’t seem to happen for other configured components, I am assuming that >> it is not a Configurator problem. >> >> 2. Is there a way to prohibit this from happening? >> >> >> In the meantime, I will make the dependent services more dynamic so they are >> not thrown off by this change, but their behavior is actually correct: the >> expectation is that the configured service should only get instantiated >> once, so a static @Reference is correct. >> >> >> Thanks! >> =David >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSGi Developer Mail List >> osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org >> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
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