001/* java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextServiceProvider 002 Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.beans.beancontext; 040 041import java.util.Iterator; 042 043/** 044 * An actual factory for services. 045 * <P> 046 * 047 * It is the <code>BeanContextServiceProvider</code>'s responsibility to 048 * register itself with whatever <code>BeanContextServices</code> object 049 * it wishes to provide services through using the 050 * <code>addService()</code> method. 051 * <P> 052 * 053 * If for some reason it can no longer provide services for a particular 054 * class, this class must invoke 055 * <code>BeanContextServices.revokeService(serviceClass,this,true)</code> 056 * for all the places it has registered the service. 057 * 058 * @author John Keiser 059 * @since JDK1.2 060 */ 061 062public interface BeanContextServiceProvider { 063 /** 064 * Get a service. 065 * Called from <code>BeanContextServices.getService()</code>. 066 * 067 * <p>If the requested service class is not available, or if this 068 * <code>BeanContextServiceProvider</code> chooses not honor the 069 * request for some reason, then this method will return 070 * <code>null</code>.</p> 071 * 072 * This method may throw unchecked exceptions, so watch out. 073 * 074 * @param services the <code>BeanContextServices</code> that wants 075 * to get the service. Only weak references to this will 076 * be retained, and it will never be changed, only queried 077 * in a read-only manner. 078 * @param requestor the actual requestor of the service. Only 079 * weak references to this will be retained, and it will 080 * never be changed, only queried in a read-only manner. 081 * @param serviceClass the <code>Class</code> of the service being 082 * requested. 083 * @param serviceSelector a parameter to customize the service 084 * returned with. 085 * @return an instance of <code>serviceClass</code> (such that 086 * <code>instanceof</code> serviceClass is true), or 087 * <code>null</code>. 088 * @see java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextServices#getService(java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextChild,java.lang.Object,java.lang.Class,java.lang.Object,java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextServiceRevokedListener) 089 */ 090 Object getService(BeanContextServices services, Object requestor, Class serviceClass, Object serviceSelector); 091 092 /** 093 * Release the service. 094 * <P> 095 * 096 * Called by <code>BeanContextServices.releaseService()</code>. 097 * <P> 098 * 099 * Most <code>BeanContextServiceProvider</code>s won't have to do 100 * anything here. 101 * 102 * @param services the <code>BeanContextServices</code> that wants 103 * to release the service. Only weak references to this will 104 * be retained, and it will never be changed, only queried 105 * in a read-only manner. 106 * @param requestor the original requestor of the service. 107 * @param service the service to relinquish 108 * @see java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextServices#releaseService(java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextChild,java.lang.Object,java.lang.Object) 109 */ 110 void releaseService(BeanContextServices services, Object requestor, Object service); 111 112 /** 113 * Get a list of valid service selectors for the specified service class. 114 * This method is called from 115 * <code>BeanContextServices.getCurrentServiceSelectors()</code>. 116 * <P> 117 * 118 * If the specified service class does not have a finite number of 119 * valid service selectors, it should return <code>null</code>. 120 * If it takes a general <code>Integer</code> parameter, for 121 * example, you may as well return <code>null</code> or the poor 122 * soul who called this method will be iterating all day. 123 * <P> 124 * 125 * If it has no valid service selectors, it should still return an empty 126 * <code>Iterator</code>. 127 * 128 * @param services the <code>BeanContextServices</code> that wants 129 * to get the service selectors. Only weak references to this will 130 * be retained, and it will never be changed, only queried 131 * in a read-only manner. 132 * @param serviceClass the service class to get selectors for. 133 * @return a list of valid service selectors for the service 134 * class, or <code>null</code>. 135 * @see java.beans.beancontext.BeanContextServices#getCurrentServiceSelectors(java.lang.Class) 136 */ 137 Iterator getCurrentServiceSelectors(BeanContextServices services, Class serviceClass); 138}