Is that possible to get osgi service reference without proxy?

[mrduguo]

It's easy to get an OSGi service with following simple configuration:
<reference id="asyncMessageService" interface="com.xyz.MessageService"/>

While it always return a proxy to original bean or service exposed by other bundles. I am wondering is that possible to get original instance instead proxy?

Thanks!

[Costin Leau]

Yes, you can by casting the proxy to a Spring DM interface. See the reference documentation:
http://static.springsource.org/osgi/...roperty-editor

and the ImportedOsgiServiceProxy javadoc: http://static.springsource.org/osgi/...viceProxy.html

[mrduguo]

Hi Costin, first thanks for the reply.

I tried following configuration:

<reference id="myService" interface="com.xyz.MyServiceInterface"/>
		
<bean id="serviceConsumer" class="MyServiceConsumerImpl">
  <property name="serviceReferenceField" ref="myService"/>                                      
  <property name="myServiceFiled" ref="myService"/>                                               
</bean>

I have com.xyz.MyServiceImpl bean exported as OSGi service from other bundle.

My goal is to get the com.xyz.MyServiceImpl bean injected to serviceConsumer as myServiceFiled. Not the proxy created by Spring DM. I am not interested to get the raw ServiceReference.

I don't like proxy for the service like cache interface, which could be invoked thousands times per second.

Apologize if didn't make it clear at first place.

However, I could get the raw service object by following code:

ServiceReference nativeReference = ((ServiceReferenceProxy)serviceReference).getTargetServiceReference();
com.xyz.MyServiceImpl myServiceImpl= (com.xyz.MyServiceImpl)bundleContext.getService(nativeReference);

I want to know is it possible to inject com.xyz.MyServiceImpl raw instance by configuration instead of my code. Or it could be a feature for future.

Cheers!