Module org.microbean.bean

Package org.microbean.bean

Interface Producer<I>

All Superinterfaces:

Aggregate

All Known Implementing Classes:

InterceptingProducer

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface Producer<I>
extends Aggregate

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.microbean.bean.Aggregate

EMPTY_ASSIGNMENTS, EMPTY_DEPENDENCIES

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default void	dispose(I i, Request<I> r)
I	produce(SequencedSet<? extends Assignment<?>> assignments)	Produces a new contextual instance and returns it, possibly (often) making use of the supplied, dependent, contextual references.
default I	produce(Request<?> r)

Methods inherited from interface org.microbean.bean.Aggregate

assign, dependencies

Method Details

dispose

default void dispose(I i,
 Request<I> r)

produce

default I produce(Request<?> r)

produce

I produce(SequencedSet<? extends Assignment<?>> assignments)

Produces a new contextual instance and returns it, possibly (often) making use of the supplied, dependent, contextual references.

Implementations of this method must not call produce(Request) or an infinite loop may result.

Parameters:

assignments - a SequencedSet of Assignments this Producer needs to create the contextual instance; must not be null

Returns:

a new contextual instance, or null

Throws:

NullPointerException - if dependentContextualReferences is null