While this isn’t explicit in the spec, there are several reasons why I’d
expect this implied behaviour:

1. clearly a sorting algorithm is in place to sort by service ranking when
calling the locateService() method
2. the same thing is true for ServiceTracker.getServiceReference()

I don’t see where in the spec the 1..1 or 1..n has any relation to service
ranking. The spec states that dynamic multiple references should be
handled in the same way:

"If the reference has a unary
cardinality and there is more than one target service for the reference,
then
the bound service must be the target service with the highest service rank-
ing as specified by the service.ranking property. If there are multiple
target
services with the same service ranking, then the bound service must be the
target service with the highest service ranking and the lowest service ID
as
specified by the service.id property."





So, if the call to locateService must do reference ordering by
service.ranking, why not use the same ranking for locateServices?

Thanks

Bruce


On 01/11/2013 16:52, "David Jencks" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Which part of the spec are you looking at that makes you expect a
>particular order?
>
>If you have a 1..1 reference and both IFoos are registered when
>FooConsumer is activated then you'll get the one with the highest service
>ranking.
>
>For a dynamic multiple reference it doesn't really make sense to expect a
>particular binding order since new services with any service rank may be
>registered in another thread while the "original" set of services is
>being bound, so there will be at least two threads binding services.
>
>thanks
>david jencks
>
>On Nov 1, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Bruce Jackson <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have 2 components, Afoo and Bfoo that both implement the same
>>interface
>> Ifoo. The component xml for both is shown below:
>>
>> <scr:component xmlns:scr="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/scr/v1.1.0";
>> immediate="true" name="AFoo">
>>        <implementation class="com.myriadgroup.scrtest.AFoo"/>
>>        <service>
>>                <provide interface="com.myriadgroup.scrtest.IFoo"/>
>>        </service>
>>        <property name="service.ranking" type="Integer" value="1"/>
>> </scr:component>
>>
>>
>> <scr:component xmlns:scr="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/scr/v1.1.0";
>> immediate="true" name="BFoo">
>>        <implementation class="com.myriadgroup.scrtest.BFoo"/>
>>        <service>
>>                <provide interface="com.myriadgroup.scrtest.IFoo"/>
>>        </service>
>>        <property name="service.ranking" type="Integer" value="2"/>
>> </scr:component>
>>
>>
>> I have another component FooConsumer that looks up Ifoo instances
>>through
>> the reference name Foo:
>>
>> <scr:component xmlns:scr="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/scr/v1.1.0";
>> name="com.myriadgroup.scrtest">
>>        <implementation class="com.myriadgroup.scrtest.FooConsumer"/>
>>        <reference cardinality="1..n"
>>interface="com.myriadgroup.scrtest.IFoo"
>> name="IFoo" policy="static"/>
>> </scr:component>
>>
>>
>> From what I see in the spec, I would expect the Ifoo instances to be
>> ordered in terms of the service.ranking when I call
>> componentContext.locateServices(³Ifoo²). However, this is not the case:
>> the ordering of the returned component array is entirely arbitrary.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this behaviour?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bruce
>>
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