[ARIES-366] Provide property injection for properties with overloaded setter method

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.2
• Component/s: Blueprint

Environment

Any

• Assignee: Valentin Mahrwald
• Reporter: Tomasz Chodakowski
• Created: 21/Jul/10 11:45
• Updated: 24/Jul/10 13:46
• Resolved: 24/Jul/10 13:46

Description

When injecting bean property with overloaded setter method the framework returns an exception:

org.osgi.service.blueprint.container.ComponentDefinitionException: Unable to find property descriptor <bean-property-setter> on class <bean-class>

Apparently, behaviour for this case was relaxed in Enterprise OSGI 4.2 spec (see section 121.5.7):
"There should only be one set method with a single argument for a specific property. If overloaded properties are
encountered, the chosen set method is unspecified."

Taking into account origin of the Blueprint service and possible migration paths for future users I believe the best case would be to follow Spring 3.x behaviour regarding the case above (just to minimize surprises).

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