[FELIX-6363] Simplify updating of OSGi configurations through REST API

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: webconsole-4.6.0
• Component/s: Web Console
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Peter Grape
• Created: 24/Nov/20 12:58
• Updated: 17/Dec/20 07:41
• Resolved: 04/Dec/20 06:29

Description

When updating a single value using the REST API the unreferenced properties in a configuration is deleted, this is not what the documentation is saying on: 

https://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects/apache-felix-web-console/web-console-restful-api.html#configuration-admin-plugin

If I instead add all the properties to the propertyList parameter all those referenced are updated and/or saved .

 

This cannot be right because I will then have to query for all parameters before I am able to update a single one.

Since there is a delete option in the REST API this should only as stated in the documentation update the referenced parameters and leave all others untouched.

 

Either add an extra option with the possibility to delete unreferenced properties.

or remove the code all together.

 

The code that does the deletion is here: 

https://github.com/apache/felix-dev/blob/ab2c3ac3a570ba316daeb6368bab8193805f37c0/webconsole/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/webconsole/internal/configuration/ConfigAdminSupport.java#L304