Re: DS optional cardinality question

Yes, but then you will still need to use the locateService method to 
obtain the actual service object.

BJ Hargrave
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I think it is also possible to have your bind methods take a 
ServiceReference, which would not require that the listener components 
are activated until the service object is retrieved, no?

-> richard

BJ Hargrave wrote:
> Yes. If you want to delay activating the listener component until they 
are 
> actually needed, then you need to use the lookup strategy. 
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> I think this is working as designed.  Declarative Services will call the 

> bind method on Manager before it calls Manager's activate Method.  It 
does 
> not matter that the reference is optional.  The "optional" setting only 
> controls whether the Manager will be activated or not - it has no 
bearing 
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> I have a simple collaborator pattern where a Manager component has a 
> optional multiple reference to several Listener services as shown below:
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> <component 
> name="Manager" immediate="true">
> <implementation class="com.ibm.listener.Manager"/>
> <reference
> name="Listener"
> interface="com.ibm.listener.Listener"
> cardinality="0..n"
> policy="dynamic"
> bind="addListener"
> unbind="removeListener"
> />
> </component>
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> <component 
> name="Listener1">
> <implementation class="com.ibm.listener.Listener1"/>
> <service>
> <provide interface="com.ibm.listener.Listener"/>
> </service>
> </component>
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> <component 
> name="Listener2">
> <implementation class="com.ibm.listener.Listener2"/>
> <service>
> <provide interface="com.ibm.listener.Listener"/>
> </service>
> </component>
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> Components Listener1 and Listener2 are not immediate components, where 
as 
> the Manager component is. I would think that DS will activate Manager 
> component without having to activate Listener1 or Listener 2 as they are 

> not immediate components, and they are not mandatory for Manager (0..n 
> cardinality). However, when I ran this example (with M5 bundles), both 
> Listener 1 and Listener 2 were activated and injected into Manager 
> component. Could this be a bug ?
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