[FELIX-3506] SCR bind/unbind/update methods should be able to return a map of service properties like the activate/deactivate/modified methods.s

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: scr-1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: scr-1.6.2
• Component/s: Declarative Services (SCR)
• Assignee: Felix Meschberger
• Reporter: David Jencks
• Created: 11/May/12 23:36
• Updated: 20/Nov/12 10:58
• Resolved: 12/May/12 03:26

Description

cf FELIX-3377.

The point of this feature is to let a component respond to changes in its environment by changing its service properties. One of the obvious environment changes is for a dynamic service to be bound or unbound while the component is active. Therefore we should extend the "return a map" style to the bind/unbind/updated method.

A simple use case I thought of.... suppose you have a service with unsecured functionality and secured functionality and an optional dynamic reference to a security service. It could use the bind and unbind methods for the security service to indicate in its own service properties how much functionality was available.