Creating OSGI Factory Configurations in AEM

28 / Feb / 2015 by ankit.gubrani 2 comments

AEM houses a powerful open source framework in its technology stack,Apache Felix. Felix is a open source implementation of OSGi. OSGi provides a way to manage bundles and their configurations.

OSGi provides a way to configure services and modify those configurations on the run-time. But apart from this there is a another powerful feature that OSGi provides that is : ability to create Factory Configurations. Factory Configurations is a way to create a single service, and bind multiple configurations to it  & then consume those configurations from different classes/Services. You all might have used Logger service provided by CQ out of the box, logger is an example of factory configuration service.

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Here are the steps for how to create factory configuration in CQ.

Step 1:

Firstly create a Component/Service that holds configurations values. This component will act a interface for adding properties of multiple configurations. Key for creating this Component/Service class is that declare this class as a configurationFactory and pass configuration policy as required. Here is the sample code :

@Component(label = "Factory configuration", immediate = true, enabled = true, 
metatype = true, 
description = "This is factory configuration which acts as a interface for allowing user to enter property values",
policy = ConfigurationPolicy.REQUIRE, configurationFactory = true)
@Property(name = "dummy.prop", label = "Dummy property", description = "This is just dummy property", value = "Dummy Value")
 public class FactoryConfig {      
      private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FactoryConfig.class);      

      @Activate      
      public void activate(ComponentContext componentContext) {           
            Dictionary properties = componentContext.getProperties();        
            String dummyProperty = PropertiesUtil.toString(properties.get("dummy.prop"), "");
            LOGGER.info("Read the dummy property value : " + dummyProperty);
      }

Step 2:

Now that you have created the interface that takes input from user, create a service that actually uses the FactoryConfig Component/Service to add configuration and accept values of properties. For creating this service we will use dynamic binding of OSGi. We will have to create a collection of FactoryConfig class and binding & unbinding methods are also required that will add or remove each FactoryConfig object in/from the collections.

@Component(label = 'Factory Congifuration', description = "", immediate = true, metatype = true, enabled = true)
@Service(FactoryConfigConsumer.class)
public class FactoryConfigConsumer {

@Reference(referenceInterface = FactoryConfig.class, 
cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.OPTIONAL_MULTIPLE,
policy = ReferencePolicy.DYNAMIC, name = "Code Brains Demo Factory configurations")
private List factoryConfigs;

     protected synchronized void bindFactoryConfig(final FactoryConfig config) {
          if (factoryConfigs == null) {
               factoryConfigs = new ArrayList<FactoryConfig>();
          }

          factoryConfigs.add(config);
     }

     protected synchronized void unbindFactoryConfig(final FactoryConfig config) {
          factoryConfigs.remove(config);
     }
}

 

 

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