Package org.rribbit.creation

Interface ListenerObjectCreator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractClassBasedListenerObjectCreator, InstantiatingClassBasedListenerObjectCreator, ObjectBasedListenerObjectCreator, SpringBeanClassBasedListenerObjectCreator

public interface ListenerObjectCreator

A ListenerObjectCreator creates the ListenerObjects that will be used by the ListenerObjectRetriever to search in.

Implementors are required to keep a list of ListenerObjectCreationObservers and notify them whenever a class is scanned and its listeners are created.

Author:

G.J. Schouten

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Collection<ListenerObject>	getListenerObjects()	Get ListenerObjects from methods that have registered themselves as a Listener.
void	registerObserver(ListenerObjectCreationObserver listenerObjectCreationObserver)	Adds a ListenerObjectCreationObserver to the list of ListenerObjectCreationObservers to be notified when a class is scanned and its listeners created.

Method Details

getListenerObjects

Collection<ListenerObject> getListenerObjects()

Get ListenerObjects from methods that have registered themselves as a Listener. Implementations are responsible for keeping a local copy of this Collection instead of recreating it everytime this method is called.

Returns:

a Collection of ListenerObject from methods that have registered themselves as a Listener or an empty Collection if there are no such methods

registerObserver

void registerObserver(ListenerObjectCreationObserver listenerObjectCreationObserver)

Adds a ListenerObjectCreationObserver to the list of ListenerObjectCreationObservers to be notified when a class is scanned and its listeners created.

Parameters:

listenerObjectCreationObserver -