Module org.refcodes.decoupling

Package org.refcodes.decoupling

Interface DependencyInterceptor

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 DependencyInterceptor

The DependencyInterceptor is a FunctionalInterface used to hook into the process of creating instances from a Dependency declaration: The instance being created can be decorated or enriched with functionality providing means to implement a proxy mechanism or a decorator. A DependencyInterceptor is registered with a Reactor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	intercept(Object aInstance, Dependency<?> aDependency)	Called by the Reactor for all registered DependencyInterceptor instances upon invoking the Reactor.createContext() (or the like) methods (this is the moment when the Reactor created the Dependency declarations' types).

Method Details

intercept

Object intercept(Object aInstance,
 Dependency<?> aDependency)

Called by the Reactor for all registered DependencyInterceptor instances upon invoking the Reactor.createContext() (or the like) methods (this is the moment when the Reactor created the Dependency declarations' types). Any instance being created is passed through this method.

Parameters:

aInstance - The instance created by the Dependency declaration.

aDependency - The Dependency declaration used for crating instances.

Returns:

The dependency as of this intercept(Object, Dependency) method's processing.