Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Add support for JSR330 Provider

Hi devs, I've started investigating this. The documentation for Provider can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/atinject/source/browse/trunk/src/javax/inject/Prov… Here's we would define a provider: @Component public class MyProvider implements Provider<RoleToProvide> {    @Inject <-- just to show that a provider is a component and be injected other components    private SomeRole role;    @Override    public RoleToProvide get()    {        … logic here to return a RoleToProvide instance…    } } And here's how you'd use it: @Component public class MyComponent implements MyRole { …    @Inject    private Provider<RoleToProvide> provider; …    public void someMethod()    {        RoleToProvide instance = this.provider.get(); … Rationale: ========= * UC1: Useful to break cyclic dependencies in a cleaner way than having the ComponentManager injected, especially since the Provider can be reused since it's shared * UC2: Useful to clean up code so that the logic to decide which implementation to return can be externalized in a Provider implementation. For example imagine you have a config property in xwiki.properties and based on it you wish to return a component with one hint or another. You could use a Provider for this. * Allows us to be JSR330 compliant (not a very strong point but still an argument ;)) Default Provider ============= When you ask to get injected a Provider if no Provider is defined for the Role you wish, you'll get injected a generic provider which simply does a lookup using the Component Manager. This allows to simply implement UC1. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs