Ah, yes - you're right; I think you've hit a bug in the SCR plugin. With cardinality or the unbounded property you influence the generation of the metatype information, but not the ds xml file. Could you please create an issue for this?
Thanks Carsten 2013/5/3 Thomas Joseph <[email protected]> > Thanks Carsten! > > I tried both the options (unbounded=PropertyUnbounded.ARRAY and > cardinality=N) > independently, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The scr xml still > generates <property name="multivalued.property" value="only-single-value"/> > > I even upgraded to SCR annotations v1.9.2 and Maven SCR plugin 1.12.0, and > still it won't work. Can I have a code sample somewhere, so that I can try > it out? > > > Thanks, > Thomas Joseph > > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > unfortunately, the java annotations do not distinguish between a single > > value and an array, so it's impossible by looking at {"single value"} if > > this is should be a single value or an array. For the tooling inspecting > > the annotations "single value" looks exactly the same. Therefore the SCR > > plugin assumes a single value to be exactly this: a single value :) > > If you just want to specify a single default value for a multi value > > property, you can either use cardinality=N if you want to limit the > number > > of values, or unbounded=PropertyUnbounded.ARRAY. We usually the latter > > option. > > > > Carsten > > > > > > 2013/5/3 Thomas Joseph <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am using Felix SCR annotations v1.7.0 and Maven SCR plugin 1.8.0, and > > > declaring a OSGi property as: > > > > > > @Property(label="Multivalued Property", value={"only-single-value"}) > > > private static final String MV_PROPERTY= "multivalued.property"; > > > > > > And then try to retrieve the property value as: > > > > > > > > > @Activate > > > @Modified > > > protected void activate(*final ComponentContext context*) throws > > Exception > > > { > > > Object prop = context.getProperties().get(MV_PROPERTY); > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > But I observe that the value is retrieved as a String and not a String > > > array. The generated SCR xml itself is generated for a String and not a > > > String array. > > > <property name="multivalued.property" value="only-single-value"/> > > > > > > However, if I declare the property as below, I get the value as an > array. > > > > > > @Property(label="Multivalued Property", value={"only-single-value"*, > > ""*}) > > > private static final String MV_PROPERTY= "multivalued.property"; > > > > > > I Googled around but could not find anything conclusive. Am I missing > > > something here? How can I get a String array without a workaround done > > > above. > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks, > > > /Thomas Joseph > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Carsten Ziegeler > > [email protected] > > > -- Carsten Ziegeler [email protected]
