org.mule.runtime.extension.api.runtime

Interface ConfigurationInstance

public interface ConfigurationInstance

Just like the ConfigurationModel class provides introspection on a configuration's structure and parameters, this concept provides an abstraction on an actual configuration instance which was declared and instantiated.

This abstraction is inspired in the traditional model that programming languages use to declare a variable. In such model, a variable has a name, a type, a value and in some higher level languages such as Java or .net they can also have metadata by the use of annotations.

In the same way, this declaration provides a getName(), a getModel() (which for the purpose of this abstraction acts as a type), a getValue() (which is the actual configuration instance) and some metadata (getStatistics())

It can optionally also contain a ConnectionProvider which will be used to handle connections in case the owning extension requires connectivity. There's a strong composition and lifecycle bound between a ConnectionProvider and a ConfigurationInstance. Whatever lifecycle phase is applied to a ConfigurationInstance, it should be propagated to its owned ConnectionProvider. More specifically, if a ConfigurationInstance is stopped, then the ConnectionProvider should also be stopped and all its active connections be released.

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Optional<org.mule.runtime.api.connection.ConnectionProvider>	getConnectionProvider()
org.mule.runtime.api.meta.model.config.ConfigurationModel	getModel()
String	getName()
ConfigurationStats	getStatistics()
Object	getValue()

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Returns:

the name for this instance

getModel

org.mule.runtime.api.meta.model.config.ConfigurationModel getModel()

Returns:

the ConfigurationModel this instance is based on

getValue

Object getValue()

Returns:

the actual configuration instance to be used

getStatistics

ConfigurationStats getStatistics()

Returns:

a ConfigurationStats object with statistics about the usage of the configuration

getConnectionProvider

Optional<org.mule.runtime.api.connection.ConnectionProvider> getConnectionProvider()

Returns:

An Optional which (maybe) holds the ConnectionProvider to be used with this ConfigurationInstance