[FELIX-3327] Gracefully handle Configuration access after Configuration Admin Service has terminated

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: configadmin-1.2.8
• Fix Version/s: configadmin-1.4.0
• Component/s: Configuration Admin
• Assignee: Felix Meschberger
• Reporter: Felix Meschberger
• Created: 30/Jan/12 15:57
• Updated: 25/Sep/13 14:02
• Resolved: 31/Jan/12 07:13

Description

When accessing Configuration objects after the Configuration Admin service supplying the Configuration has been unregistered/stopped, all kinds of exceptions may be thrown. This should be cleaned such that defined and controlled exceptions are thrown:

• getPid, getFactoryPid, and getProperties just operate as before. They don't need live Configuration Admin access
• getBundleLocation, setBundleLocation, update (both methods), and delete throw IllegalStateException

This is not required by the spec (in fact the spec remains silent about this case) but is ok.