org.apache.hivemind.service
Interface ObjectProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClassObjectProvider, ConfigurationObjectProvider, ObjectInstanceObjectProvider, ServiceObjectProvider, ServicePropertyObjectProvider

public interface ObjectProvider

A service which can provide an object value for the indirect translator.

Author:

Howard Lewis Ship

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

provideObject(Module contributingModule, java.lang.Class propertyType, java.lang.String locator, Location location) Invoked by the translator to provide the value.

Method Detail

provideObject

java.lang.Object provideObject(Module contributingModule,
                               java.lang.Class propertyType,
                               java.lang.String locator,
                               Location location)

Invoked by the translator to provide the value.

Parameters:

contributingModule - the module which contributed to the locator

propertyType - the expected type of property

locator - a string that should be meaningful to this provider. It is the suffix of the original input value provided to the translator, after the selector prefix (used to choose a provider) was stripped.

location - the location of the input value (from which the locator was extracted). Used for error reporting, or to set the location of created objects.