Custom Collector

A Decanter collector sends an OSGi EventAdmin event to a decanter/collect/* topic.

You can create two kinds of collector:

event driven collector automatically reacts to some internal events. It creates an event sent to a topic.
polled collector is a Runnable OSGi service periodically executed by the Decanter Scheduler.

Event Driven Collector

For instance, the log collector is event driven: it automatically reacts to internal log events.

To illustrate an Event Driven Collector, we can create a BundleCollector. This collector will react when a bundle state changes (installed, started, stopped, uninstalled).

The purpose is to send a monitoring event in a collect topic. This monitoring event can be consumed by the appenders.

We create the following BundleCollector class implementing SynchronousBundleListener interface:

package org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector;

import org.osgi.framework.SynchronousBundleListener;
import org.osgi.service.event.EventAdmin;
import org.osgi.service.event.Event;
import java.util.HashMap;

public class BundleCollector implements SynchronousBundleListener {

    private EventAdmin eventAdmin;

    public BundleCollector(Event eventAdmin) {
      this.eventAdmin = eventAdmin;
    }

    @Override
    public void bundleChanged(BundleEvent bundleEvent) {
      HashMap<String, Object> data = new HashMap<>();
      data.put("type", "bundle");
      data.put("change", bundleEvent.getType());
      data.put("id", bundleEvent.getBundle().getId());
      data.put("location", bundleEvent.getBundle().getLocation());
      data.put("symbolicName", bundleEvent.getBundle().getSymbolicName());
      Event event = new Event("decanter/collect/bundle", data);
      eventAdmin.postEvent(event);
    }

}

You can see here the usage of the OSGi EventAdmin as dispatcher: the collector creates a data map, and send it to a decanter/collect/bundle topic.

We just need an Activator in the collector bundle to start our BundleCollector listener:

package org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector;

import org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceReference;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceRegistration;
import org.osgi.service.event.EventAdmin;
import org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker;

public class Activator implements BundleActivator {

       private BundleCollector collector;

       public void start(final BundleContext bundleContext) {
           ServiceTracker tracker = new ServiceTracker(bundleContext, EventAdmin.class.getName(), null);
           EventAdmin eventAdmin = (EventAdmin) tracker.waitForService(10000);
           collector = new BundleCollector(eventAdmin);
       }

       public void stop(BundleContext bundleContext) {
           collector = null;
       }

}

Now, we just need a Maven pom.xml to package the bundle with the correct OSGi headers:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <!--

        Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
        contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
        this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
        The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
        (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
        the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

        Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
        distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
        WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
        See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
        limitations under the License.
    -->

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector.bundle</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
    <name>Apache Karaf :: Decanter :: Sample :: Collector :: Bundle</name>

    <dependencies>

        <!-- OSGi -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4.0</version>
                <inherited>true</inherited>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <instructions>
                        <Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
                        <Bundle-Version>${project.version}</Bundle-Version>
                        <Bundle-Activator>org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector.bundle.Activator</Bundle-Activator>
                        <Import-Package>
                            *
                        </Import-Package>
                    </instructions>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

You can now enable this collector, just by installing the bundle in Apache Karaf (using the deploy folder, or the bundle:install command.

Polled Collector

You can also create a polled collector.

A polled collector is basically a Runnable OSGi service, periodically executed for you by the Decanter Scheduler.

The run() method of the polled collector is responsible to harvest the data and send the monitoring event.

For instance, we can create a very simple polled collector sending a constant Hello World string.

We create the HelloCollector class implementing the Runnable interface:

package org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector.hello;

import org.osgi.service.event.Event;
import org.osgi.service.event.EventAdmin;
import java.util.HashMap;

public class HelloCollector implements Runnable {

  private EventAdmin eventAdmin;

  public HelloCollector(EventAdmin eventAdmin) {
    this.eventAdmin = eventAdmin;
  }

  @Override
  public void run() {
    HashMap<String, Object> data = new HashMap<>();
    data.put("type", "hello");
    data.put("message", "Hello World");
    Event event = new Event("decanter/collect/hello", data);
    eventAdmin.postEvent(event);
  }

}

You can see the run() method which post the monitoring event in the decanter/collector/hello topic.

We just need a BundleActivator to register the HelloCollector as an OSGi service:

package org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector.hello;

import org.osgi.framework.*;
import org.osgi.service.event.EventAdmin;
import org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker;

public class Activator implements BundleActivator {

    private ServiceRegistration registration;

    public void start(BundleContext bundleContext) {
       ServiceTracker tracker = new ServiceTracker(bundleContext, EventAdmin.class.getName(), null);
       EventAdmin eventAdmin = tracker.waitForService(10000);
       HelloCollector collector = new HelloCollector(eventAdmin);

       Dictionary<String, String> serviceProperties = new Hashtable<String, String>();
       serviceProperties.put("decanter.collector.name", "hello");
       registration = bundleContext.registerService(Runnable.class, collector, serviceProperties);
    }

    public void stop(BundleContext bundleContext) {
       if (registration != null) registration.unregister();
    }

}

Now, we can package the bundle using the following Maven pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <!--

        Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
        contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
        this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
        The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
        (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
        the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

        Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
        distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
        WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
        See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
        limitations under the License.
    -->

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector.hello</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
    <name>Apache Karaf :: Decanter :: Sample :: Collector :: Hello</name>

    <dependencies>

        <!-- OSGi -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4.0</version>
                <inherited>true</inherited>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <instructions>
                        <Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
                        <Bundle-Version>${project.version}</Bundle-Version>
                        <Bundle-Activator>org.apache.karaf.decanter.sample.collector.hello.Activator</Bundle-Activator>
                        <Import-Package>
                            *
                        </Import-Package>
                    </instructions>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

You can now enable this collector, just by installing the bundle in Apache Karaf (using the deploy folder, or the bundle:install command.