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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:28:58 +0800
From: "Stuart McCulloch" <stuart.mcculloch@jayway.net>
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Subject: Re: DS and references without an interface
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2008/7/23 Alin Dreghiciu <adreghiciu@gmail.com>:

> Thanx Felix.
>
> Yes, I posted the same question on more mailing lists as I did not got
> a reply from Felix list were I originally posted the question. I think
> you were in vacation and all DS knowledge was with you :)
> BJ answered same thing: not supported. But I'm thinking to add an
> enhancement issue on DS with OSGi alliance as to me this seems as a
> valid use case even if is a corner case.
>

FYI, the schema for RFC124 (the Spring inspired component model RFC)
currently allows service references with no declared interface(s) - however
I haven't actually tried this in practice with Spring-DM so YMMV...

anyway, sounds like a good idea to raise this issue with DS and RFC124

Regards,
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Felix Meschberger <fmeschbe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Alin,
> >
> > Is this a cross-post from the OSGi-Dev list ?
> >
> > Anyway, looking at the spec it seems, that interface attribute of the
> > reference element is required. So I would assume, that this is not
> possible
> > - with the current specification. And AFAIK the Felix SCR is not able to
> do
> > this either.
> >
> > Regards
> > Felix
> >
> > Alin Dreghiciu schrieb:
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> Is there any way to specify in Declarative Services a reference
> >> without a type, just with a filter (target)?
> >> My use case is that I want all services that have certain service
> >> properties regardless the type of the service.
> >>
> >> Thanx,
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Alin Dreghiciu
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-- 
Cheers, Stuart

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