Tim,

Thanks for the clarifications. I expected possible differences but was
first looking for dev time tooling, but I can still launch my framework and
just query that even if I'm not attempting to use the services at that
moment (or expecting all my config to be without flaws :))

Alain


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:26 AM Tim Ward <tim.w...@paremus.com> wrote:

> Hi Alain
>
> It’s not possible to model this accurately at build time because services
> may come and go at runtime, and their service properties may change with
> configuration. Added to this it is also possible to change the target
> filters on references which changes/restricts what they may bind to.
>
> Another potential pitfall with the static approach is that not all
> services are provided with DS. At the very least you would also need to
> analyse the Provide-Capability header to find other services.
>
> In summary, the best that you can do with static analysis is to come up
> with a guess of how things might wire. The Runtime DTOs will tell you how
> things have actually wired.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tim
>
> On 17 Jul 2018, at 13:14, BJ Hargrave via osgi-dev <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org>
> wrote:
>
> Yes, that is at runtime.
> --
>
> BJ Hargrave
> Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM // office: +1 386 848 1781
> OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance // mobile: +1 386 848 3788
> hargr...@us.ibm.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Alain Picard <pic...@castortech.com>
> To: hargr...@us.ibm.com
> Cc: osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org
> Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] Tool/API to analyze component dependencies
> Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 8:07 AM
>
> Thanks BJ, from what I see that will do the trick, expect that it is
> runtime, but I can live with that.
>
> Alain
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:58 AM BJ Hargrave <hargr...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Look at the ServiceComponentRuntime service:
> https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.component.html#service.component-introspection
>
> It provides access to DTOs which describe each component description,
> ComponentDescriptionDTO, and actual component instances,
> ComponentConfigurationDTO. You can follows the ReferenceDTOs to see the
> dependency graph.
>
>
> --
>
> BJ Hargrave
> Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM // office: +1 386 848 1781
> OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance // mobile: +1 386 848 3788
> hargr...@us.ibm.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Alain Picard via osgi-dev <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org>
> Sent by: osgi-dev-boun...@mail.osgi.org
> To: osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [osgi-dev] Tool/API to analyze component dependencies
> Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 6:27 AM
>
> As I'm going through our migration to DS I am in need of understanding our
> component "graph" and to make sure there are no cycles. For the core ones,
> I manually created of small dot file from the @Reference and used graphviz
> to render.
>
> Now I am looking for some API to automate the process, at dev time if
> possible. AFAIK, DS will read the component.xml and create a registry with
> all info. Can I make use of this resolution to grab all the info that I
> need?
>
> Thanks
> Alain
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