It is not possible to reload a weaving hook without restarting affected bundles because in order for the weaving to act the classloader has to be thrown away and recreated with the hook in place.
Sincerely, - Ray On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:21 AM Roy Teeuwen <r...@teeuwen.be> wrote: > Trying it out here if there may be more response > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: Roy Teeuwen <r...@teeuwen.be> > > Subject: Updating OSGI weaving hooks at runtime > > Date: 5 August 2020 at 08:49:09 CEST > > To: Apache Felix Developer List <d...@felix.apache.org> > > > > Hey devs, > > > > I found a repo with some weaving hooks examples ( > https://github.com/bdelacretaz/OSGi-weaving-hook-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/ch/x42/osgi/weavinghook/LogMethodCallsHook.java > < > https://github.com/bdelacretaz/OSGi-weaving-hook-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/ch/x42/osgi/weavinghook/LogMethodCallsHook.java>, > even though it is pretty old) and found it interesting. What I would like > to try out is to mimick the behaviour of Rookout ( > https://www.rookout.com/ <https://www.rookout.com/> ). Rookout allows > (read-only) debugging of a production instance by adding a java agent that > is able to get object field values at runtime without attaching a real java > remote debugging instance. > > > > How I would like to mimick this is by creating an OSGi Weaving Hook, > based on the LogMethodCallsHook class, that would allow you to create an > OSGi weaving hook at runtime by creating for example an OSGi configuration > factory that registers a weaving hook for a class with a method in a > specific bundle. Do you see this feasible? Is it possible to register a > weaving hook without having to reload the entire bundle again and going > through the Activator method again? > > > > I already had a comment from the repo owner himself and he doesn’t think > its feasable but he gave me the remark to ask here as well! ( > https://github.com/bdelacretaz/OSGi-weaving-hook-examples/issues/1 < > https://github.com/bdelacretaz/OSGi-weaving-hook-examples/issues/1>) > > > > Thanks! > > Roy > > -- *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> (@Liferay)
