001// Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 002// 003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005// You may obtain a copy of the License at 006// 007// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008// 009// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013// limitations under the License. 014 015package org.apache.hivemind.service; 016 017import org.apache.hivemind.Location; 018import org.apache.hivemind.internal.Module; 019 020/** 021 * A service which can provide an object value for the <code>indirect</code> 022 * translator. 023 * 024 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 025 */ 026public interface ObjectProvider 027{ 028 /** 029 * Invoked by the translator to provide the value. 030 * @param contributingModule the module which contributed to the locator 031 * @param propertyType the expected type of property 032 * @param locator a string that should be meaningful to this provider. It is the suffix of 033 * the original input value provided to the translator, after the selector prefix 034 * (used to choose a provider) was stripped. 035 * @param location the location of the input value (from which the locator was extracted). Used 036 * for error reporting, or to set the location of created objects. 037 */ 038 public Object provideObject( 039 Module contributingModule, 040 Class propertyType, 041 String locator, 042 Location location); 043}