net.sourceforge.dynamicdispatch
Class DispatcherFactory

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.dynamicdispatch.DispatcherFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

ByteCodeDispatcherFactory, ReflectionDispatcherFactory, SourceCodeDispatcherFactory

public abstract class DispatcherFactory

extends java.lang.Object

Creates a dispatcher object for a visitor class. See package overview for details. This is an abstract factory class with a default instance (defaults to ReflectionDispatcher.

Version:

0.0.4

Author:

Fabian Buettner

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

METHODNAME The default method name to consider (defaults to "visit")

Constructor Summary

DispatcherFactory()

Method Summary

static Dispatcher	createDefaultDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver) Calls createDispatcher(Object) on the default factory.
static Dispatcher	createDefaultDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver, java.lang.String method) Calls createDispatcher(Object,String) on the default factory.
abstract Dispatcher	createDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver) Create a dispatcher object for receiver whose "dispatch" method is dispatching to all methods named METHODNAME.
abstract Dispatcher	createDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver, java.lang.String method) Create a dispatcher object for receiver whose "dispatch" method is dispatching to all methods named method.
static void	setDefaultFactory(DispatcherFactory f) Sets the factory used by the createDefaultDispatcher methods.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

METHODNAME

public static final java.lang.String METHODNAME

The default method name to consider (defaults to "visit")

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DispatcherFactory

public DispatcherFactory()

Method Detail

setDefaultFactory

public static void setDefaultFactory(DispatcherFactory f)

Sets the factory used by the createDefaultDispatcher methods.

createDispatcher

public abstract Dispatcher createDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver)

Create a dispatcher object for receiver whose "dispatch" method is dispatching to all methods named METHODNAME.

createDispatcher

public abstract Dispatcher createDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver,
                                            java.lang.String method)

Create a dispatcher object for receiver whose "dispatch" method is dispatching to all methods named method.

createDefaultDispatcher

public static Dispatcher createDefaultDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver)

Calls createDispatcher(Object) on the default factory.

createDefaultDispatcher

public static Dispatcher createDefaultDispatcher(java.lang.Object receiver,
                                                 java.lang.String method)

Calls createDispatcher(Object,String) on the default factory.