Step 2 - Hooking into the Service Activation

Services can be "activated" and "passivated". Applications can be notified of this occurring by Zest™ runtime by assembling them with an Activator.

Activators methods are called around "activation" and "passivation": beforeActivation, afterActivation, beforeActivation, afterPassivation. The ActivatorAdapter class help you keeping your code short when you only need one or two hooks.

To showcase how this works, we refactor the code to create a number of copies of the books, to be lend out upon call to the borrowBook method, which will return null if no copy is available. The book copies are created in the activate method.

Steps to do.

1. Add a createInitialData method to Library.
2. In the implementation, create a couple of books of each title and store each copy in a HashMap<String,ArrayList<Book>>.
3. Write an Activator<ServiceReference<Library>> class extending ActivatorAdapter.
4. Override the afterActivation method, use the ServiceReference to get a handle on the Library and call its createInitialData method.
5. Add the @Activators annotation to the LibraryService declaring the new LibraryActivator.