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author Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
date Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:58:35 +0200
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1 /*
2 * $Header: /cvshome/build/org.osgi.framework/src/org/osgi/framework/ServiceRegistration.java,v 1.14 2007/02/21 16:49:05 hargrave Exp $
3 *
4 * Copyright (c) OSGi Alliance (2000, 2007). All Rights Reserved.
5 *
6 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
7 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
8 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
9 *
10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
11 *
12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
13 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
14 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
15 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
16 * limitations under the License.
17 */
18
19 module org.osgi.framework.ServiceRegistration;
20 import org.osgi.framework.ServiceReference;
21
22 import java.lang.all;
23 import java.util.Dictionary;
24
25 /**
26 * A registered service.
27 *
28 * <p>
29 * The Framework returns a <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object when a
30 * <code>BundleContext.registerService</code> method invocation is successful.
31 * The <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object is for the private use of the
32 * registering bundle and should not be shared with other bundles.
33 * <p>
34 * The <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object may be used to update the
35 * properties of the service or to unregister the service.
36 *
37 * @see BundleContext#registerService(String[],Object,Dictionary)
38 * @ThreadSafe
39 * @version $Revision: 1.14 $
40 */
41
42 public interface ServiceRegistration {
43 /**
44 * Returns a <code>ServiceReference</code> object for a service being
45 * registered.
46 * <p>
47 * The <code>ServiceReference</code> object may be shared with other
48 * bundles.
49 *
50 * @throws java.lang.IllegalStateException If this
51 * <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object has already been
52 * unregistered.
53 * @return <code>ServiceReference</code> object.
54 */
55 public ServiceReference getReference();
56
57 /**
58 * Updates the properties associated with a service.
59 *
60 * <p>
61 * The {@link Constants#OBJECTCLASS} and {@link Constants#SERVICE_ID} keys
62 * cannot be modified by this method. These values are set by the Framework
63 * when the service is registered in the OSGi environment.
64 *
65 * <p>
66 * The following steps are required to modify service properties:
67 * <ol>
68 * <li>The service's properties are replaced with the provided properties.
69 * <li>A service event of type {@link ServiceEvent#MODIFIED} is
70 * fired.
71 * </ol>
72 *
73 * @param properties The properties for this service. See {@link Constants}
74 * for a list of standard service property keys. Changes should not
75 * be made to this object after calling this method. To update the
76 * service's properties this method should be called again.
77 *
78 * @throws IllegalStateException If this <code>ServiceRegistration</code>
79 * object has already been unregistered.
80 * @throws IllegalArgumentException If <code>properties</code> contains
81 * case variants of the same key name.
82 */
83 public void setProperties(Dictionary properties);
84
85 /**
86 * Unregisters a service. Remove a <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object
87 * from the Framework service registry. All <code>ServiceReference</code>
88 * objects associated with this <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object
89 * can no longer be used to interact with the service.
90 *
91 * <p>
92 * The following steps are required to unregister a service:
93 * <ol>
94 * <li>The service is removed from the Framework service registry so that
95 * it can no longer be used. <code>ServiceReference</code> objects for the
96 * service may no longer be used to get a service object for the service.
97 * <li>A service event of type {@link ServiceEvent#UNREGISTERING} is
98 * fired so that bundles using this service can release their
99 * use of it.
100 * <li>For each bundle whose use count for this service is greater than
101 * zero: <br>
102 * The bundle's use count for this service is set to zero. <br>
103 * If the service was registered with a {@link ServiceFactory} object, the
104 * <code>ServiceFactory.ungetService</code> method is called to release
105 * the service object for the bundle.
106 * </ol>
107 *
108 * @throws java.lang.IllegalStateException If this
109 * <code>ServiceRegistration</code> object has already been
110 * unregistered.
111 * @see BundleContext#ungetService
112 * @see ServiceFactory#ungetService
113 */
114 public void unregister();
115 }