iPOPO 0.5.3

New get_factory_details(name) method in the iPOPO service, acting like get_instance_details(name) but for factories. It returns a dictionary describing the given factory.

New factory shell command, which describes a component factory: properties, requirements, provided services, …

Servlet exceptions are now both sent to the client and logged locally

Data read from the servlets or sockets are now properly converted from bytes to string before being parsed (Python 3 compatibility).

Exceptions are now printed using str(ex) instead of ex.message (Python 3 compatibility).

The shell output is now flushed, both by the shell I/O handler and the text console. The remote console was already flushing its output. This allows to run the Pelix shell correctly inside Eclipse.

An error is now logged if a class is manipulated twice. Decorators executed after the first manipulation, i.e. upon @ComponentFactory(), are ignored.

New servlet binding parameters:

• http.name : Name of HTTP service. The name of component instance in the case of the basic implementation.

• http.extra : Extra properties of the HTTP service. In the basic implementation, this the content of the http.extra property of the HTTP server component

New method accept_binding(path, params) in servlets. This allows to refuse the binding with a server before to test the availability of the registration path, thus to avoid raising a meaningless exception.

End points are stored according to their framework

Added a method lost_framework(uid) in the registry of imported services, which unregisters all the services provided by the given framework.

Shell help command now accepts a command name to print a specific documentation

The remote shell now provides a service, pelix.shell.remote, with a get_access() method that returns the (host, port) tuple where the remote shell is waiting for clients.

The HTTP service now supports the update of servlet services properties. A servlet service can now update its registration path property after having been bound to a HTTP service.

A 500 server error page containing an exception trace is now generated when a servlet fails.

Bundle.update() now logs the SyntaxError exception that be raised in Python 3.

Fixed the threads command that wasn’t working on Python 3.

The bound_to() method of a servlet is called only after the HTTP service is ready to accept clients.

BundleContext.install_bundle() now returns the Bundle object instead of the bundle ID. BundleContext.get_bundle() has been updated to accept both IDs and Bundle objects in order to keep a bit of compatibility

Framework.get_symbolic_name() now returns pelix.framework instead of org.psem2m.pelix

ServiceEvent.get_type() is renamed get_kind(). The other name is still available but is declared deprecated (a warning is logged on its first use).

Shell command methods now take an IOHandler object in parameter instead of input and output file-like streams. This hides the compatibility tricks between Python 2 and 3 and simplifies the output formatting.

Added this “release notes” page to the web site

BundleContext.install_visiting(path, visitor):

• Visits the given path and installs the found modules if the visitor accepts them

BundleContext.install_package(path) (experimental):

• Installs all the modules found in the package at the given path

• Based on install_visiting()

Components with a pelix.ipopo.auto_restart property set to True are automatically re-instantiated after their bundle has been updated.

Remote Services: use services of a distant Pelix instance

• Multicast discovery

• XML-RPC transport (not fully usable)

• JSON-RPC transport (based on a patched version of jsonrpclib)

EventAdmin: send events (a)synchronously