Never mind.
I found
https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.configurator.html which
matches the observed behavior.
Paul Spencer
> On May 15, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Paul Spencer wrote:
>
> Karaf 4.3.6
>
> I would like to include a Map in a json configuration file. Following the
> example in
> http://nanthrax.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-new-in-apache-karaf-430_9.html, I
> created the etc/foo.json. Unfortunately the returned type of the property
> "complex" was java.lang.String instead of the expected Map type.
>
> Can a configuration property be a Map?
> If so, please include an example.
>
>
> ***
> * etc/foo.json saved
> ***
> {
> "complex":"{
>"a":1,
>"b":"two"
> }
> }
>
> ***
> * etc/foo.json rewritten by Karaf
> ***
> {
> "complex":"{\"a\":1,\"b\":\"two\"}"
> }
>
> ***
> * Snippet to display the property type
> ***
>@Activate
>protected void activate(final Map configProperties) throws
> Exception {
>for (Entry entry : configProperties.entrySet()) {
>logger.info("Key : {}, Value {}", entry.getKey(),
> entry.getValue().getClass().getCanonicalName());
>}
>}
>
>
> Paul Spencer
