The ServiceRegistry allows a bundle to provide services to other bundle, and to find services provided by other bundles.

A bundle can provide and register arbitrary services in the form of interface classes. Every service a bundle provides must be implemented in a class derived from Service. Service objects are reference counted.

A service can be implemented and registered as a singleton, meaning there exists exacty one instance of the service providing services to all bundles in the system. Alternatively, a service can be implemented and registered using a service factory. A service factory provides a unique instance of the service class to everyone requesting the Service object.

If a service is to be registered using a service factory, a corresponding subclass of ServiceFactory must be implemented for the Service class. An instance of the ServiceFactory must then be registered instead of the Service object itself.

Creates the ServiceRegistry.

Destroys the ServiceRegistry.

Looks up a service(s) with the properties specified by the given query.

The string given in query must be a valid query expression according to the syntax given below.

Fills the given results vector with ServiceRef objects matching the given query and returns the number of matches found.

The query language syntax is as follows:

expr          ::= andExpr ["||" andExpr]
andExpr       ::= relExpr ["&&" relExpr]
relExpr       ::= ["!"] (id [relOp value | "=~" matchExpr]) | subExpr
subExpr       ::= "(" expr ")"
relOp         ::= "==" | "!=" | "<" | "<=" | ">" | ">="
value         ::= numLiteral | boolLiteral | stringLiteral
numLiteral    ::= [sign] digit*"."digit*["E"["+" | "-"]digit*]
boolLiteral   ::= "true" | "false"
stringLiteral ::= '"' char* '"'
matchExpr     ::= stringLiteral | regExpr
regExpr       ::= delim char+ delim /* valid Perl regular expression,
                                       enclosed in delim */
delim         ::= "/" | "#"

Examples for valid queries:

• name == "com.appinf.osp.sample.service" - a simple string comparison for equality.
• majorVersion > 1 && minorVersion >= 5 - numeric comparisons and logical AND.
• name =~ "com.appinf.osp.*" && someProperty - simple pattern matching and test for existence of someProperty.
• someProperty =~ /[0-9]+/ - regular expression matching.

Looks up a service with the given name.

Returns a ServiceRef for the given service, or a NULL pointer if the service does not exist.

Registers the service object given in pService under the given name, and with the given service properties.

Returns a ServiceRef object for the registered service that can later be used to update the service properties.

Throws a Poco::ExistsException if a service with that name has already been registered.

Unregisters the service with the given name.

Throws a Poco::NotFoundException if no service with the given name exists.

Unregisters the service specified by pServiceRef.

Fired whenever a new service has been registered.

Fired whenever a service has been unregistered.