org.glassfish.hk2
Interface Descriptor

public interface Descriptor

A Descriptor is a bean-like structure that describes a service declaration in HK2.

Services have a number of optional attributes such as name and scope. A service is required to minimally have a type name representing the concrete (i.e., byType) definition.

Author:

Jerome Dochez, Jeff Trent, Mason Taube

Method Summary

java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>	getContracts() The contracts that are used to index the service definition.
MultiMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	getMetadata() The meta data attributes for the service.
java.lang.String	getName() The optional name for the service.
java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>	getQualifiers() Returns the qualifier annotations on the service.
java.lang.String	getTypeName() The implementation definition type.

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()

The optional name for the service.

Returns:

service's name or null if none provided

getMetadata

MultiMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> getMetadata()

The meta data attributes for the service.

Returns:

the service's metadata

getQualifiers

java.util.Collection<java.lang.String> getQualifiers()

Returns the qualifier annotations on the service.

Returns:

a collection of qualifiers for this service.

getContracts

java.util.Collection<java.lang.String> getContracts()

The contracts that are used to index the service definition.

Returns:

the collection of contracts fqcn.

getTypeName

java.lang.String getTypeName()

The implementation definition type.

Returns:

the fcqn of the implementation.