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Wildcard support in Dynamic-imports
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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/thomas.diesler%40jboss.com">Thomas Diesler</a> in <i>JBoss Microcontainer Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/543214#543214">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>This approach causes these tests to fail</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Failed tests: <br/>  testDynamicImportWithWildcard(org.jboss.test.osgi.core.jbosgi323.OSGi323TestCase)<br/>  testAllPackagesWildcard(org.jboss.test.osgi.classloader.DynamicImportPackageTestCase)<br/>  testAllPackagesWildcardNotWired(org.jboss.test.osgi.classloader.DynamicImportPackageTestCase)<br/>  testPackageWildcardWired(org.jboss.test.osgi.classloader.DynamicImportPackageTestCase)<br/>  testPackageWildcardNotWired(org.jboss.test.osgi.classloader.DynamicImportPackageTestCase)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="padding: 0px; min-">AFAICS, the module tracking only works when the exporting module gets installed *after* the importing module has its policy setup.</p><p style="padding: 0px; min-">The WildcardClassLoaderPolicy should probably also scan allready existing modules when it is setup. More generally, perhaps a ModuleTracker</p><p style="padding: 0px; min-">that works simmilar to <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.osgi.org/javadoc/r4v42/org/osgi/util/tracker/BundleTracker.html">BundleTracker</a> is needed.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="padding: 0px; min-">Even then, addModule</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> addModule(Module current)
   <font color="navy">{</font>
      Domain md = getDomain(current);
      <font color="navy"><b>if</b></font> (md != <font color="navy"><b>null</b></font> && current.canResolve(requirement))
      <font color="navy">{</font>
      ...
      <font color="navy">}</font>
 
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>will not add the exporting module because Module.canResolve(req) would not return 'true' for DynamicImport-Package: *</p></div>
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