au.com.dius.fatboy.factory

Interface GenericClassFactory<T>

All Superinterfaces:

ClassFactory<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractGenericClassFactory, ArrayFactory, CollectionFactory, MapFactory, NullFactory, SimpleClassFactory, SimpleGenericFieldFactory

public interface GenericClassFactory<T>
extends ClassFactory<T>

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
T	create(Class rawType, Type[] actualTypeArguments) Creates an instance of rawType, given its actual type arguments actualTypeArguments See CollectionFactory for an example of generic type instantiation
void	putHint(FactoryHint hint)
boolean	supports(Class clazz, Type genericType) Checks if this ClassFactory supports the generic creation of clazz, given its possible generic type genericType Generic type has 3 possible values

Methods inherited from interface au.com.dius.fatboy.factory.ClassFactory

create, removeHint, supports, supports

Method Detail

supports

boolean supports(Class clazz,
                 Type genericType)

Checks if this ClassFactory supports the generic creation of clazz, given its possible generic type genericType Generic type has 3 possible values

Parameters:

clazz - The class to create

genericType - The generic type of the declared class, which has 3 possible value types:

Returns:

true if this provider can create an instance (or generic instance) of the class in question, or false otherwise

create

T create(Class rawType,
         Type[] actualTypeArguments)

Creates an instance of rawType, given its actual type arguments actualTypeArguments See CollectionFactory for an example of generic type instantiation

Parameters:

rawType - The raw class of the type being created. (Map, List, Set etc)

actualTypeArguments - the declared generic types for the class being created

Returns:

A new object of class type T that this class is a factory for

See Also:

CollectionFactory

putHint

void putHint(FactoryHint hint)

Specified by:

putHint in interface ClassFactory<T>

Parameters:

hint - the new FactoryConfig for this factory