org.jvnet.hk2.config

Annotation Type GenerateServiceFromMethod

@Documented
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=ANNOTATION_TYPE)
public @interface GenerateServiceFromMethod

This annotation is put on user-supplied annotations in order to cause the hk2-inhabitant-generator tool to create descriptors with certain properties.

The user-supplied annotation must have the following properties:

• Must only apply to methods (or classes also annotated with Decorator)
• Must be available at runtime
• Must only be applied to interfaces marked with Configured
• May have one or zero String fields marked with GeneratedServiceName

Only methods of type java.util.List with a parameterized type (e.g. List) or which take a single parameter and a void return type may be annotated with the user-supplied annotation. The parameterized actual type (or the type of the parameter) will end up being used as a field in the descriptor. A single method may have multiple user-supplied annotations marked with this annotation, in which case a different descriptor will be generated for each user-supplied annotation.

When a method on an Configured interface has a user-supplied annotation that is annotated with this interface the hk2-inhabitant-generator will generate a service descriptor with the following properties:

• The implementation class will be as specified in this annotation
• The available contracts will be as specified in this annotation
• The scope will be as specified in this annotation
• If the user-supplied annotation has a field marked with GeneratedServiceName it will be the name in the descriptor
• It will have a metadata entry with the name of the actual type of the List parameterized return type (or the single parametere type) with key METHOD_ACTUAL
• It will have a metadata entry with the name of the method with key METHOD_NAME
• It will have a metadata entry with the name of the parent Configured class with key PARENT_CONFGIURED

If a class is annotated with a user-supplied annotation marked with this annotation then that class *must* also be annotated with the Decorate annotation. The Decorate annotation will provide the values for several of the fields as described below.

When a class on an Configured interface has a user-supplied annotation that is annotated with this interface the hk2-inhabitant-generator will generate a service descriptor with the following properties:

• The implementation class will be as specified in this annotation
• The available contracts will be as specified in this annotation
• The scope will be as specified in this annotation
• The name will come from the field annotated with GeneratedServiceName from the user-supplied annotation defined by the Decorate#with() method
• It will have a metadata entry with the Decorate#targetType() value with key METHOD_ACTUAL
• It will have a metadata entry with the Decorate#methodName() value with key METHOD_NAME
• It will have a metadata entry with the name of the parent Configured class with key PARENT_CONFGIURED

Author:

jwells

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
String[]	advertisedContracts The set of fully qualified class names of the advertised contracts that are to be used in the generated descriptor.
String	implementation This must have the fully qualified class name of the implementation that is to be used in the generated descriptor

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
String	scope The scope that the descriptor should take.

Element Detail

implementation

public abstract String implementation

This must have the fully qualified class name of the implementation that is to be used in the generated descriptor

Returns:

The fully qualified class name of the implementation

advertisedContracts

public abstract String[] advertisedContracts

The set of fully qualified class names of the advertised contracts that are to be used in the generated descriptor. Note that the implementation class is not automatically added to this list

Returns:

The fully qualified class names of the advertised contracts the generated descriptor should take

scope

public abstract String scope

The scope that the descriptor should take. Defaults to PerLookup

Returns:

The fully qualified class names of the scope the descriptor should take

Default:

"org.glassfish.hk2.api.PerLookup"