com.scriptbasic.interfaces

Interface Factory

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicFactory

public interface Factory

Generic factory interface to create and get objects, as factories usually do.

Author:

Peter Verhas date Jun 7, 2012

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	clean() Clean the factory.
<T extends FactoryManaged> T	get(Class<T> klass) Get an instance of the interface.

Method Detail

get

<T extends FactoryManaged> T get(Class<T> klass)

Get an instance of the interface. Calling the method multiple times with the same argument should return the same instance on the same factory. Implementation are encouraged to check that the parameter argument is an interface and not an ordinary class.

Parameters:

klass - the interface. It is an error to pass a class that is not an interface. In that case the implementation may throw BasicInterpreterInternalError.

Returns:

the instance implementing the interface.

clean

void clean()

Clean the factory. Remove all references to the objects that were created by the factory.

When the factory creates thread singletons (thread local instances) then this is important to call this method to release the objects before the thread finishes.