org.daisy.dotify.api.embosser

Interface FileFormatProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Provider<FactoryProperties>

public interface FileFormatProvider
extends Provider<FactoryProperties>

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
FileFormat	newFactory(String identifier) Creates a new file format with the specified identifier.
void	setCreatedWithSPI() Informs the implementation that it was discovered and instantiated using information collected from a file within the META-INF/services directory.

Methods inherited from interface org.daisy.dotify.api.factory.Provider

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Method Detail

setCreatedWithSPI

void setCreatedWithSPI()

Informs the implementation that it was discovered and instantiated using information collected from a file within the META-INF/services directory. In other words, it was created using SPI (service provider interfaces).

This information, in turn, enables the implementation to use the same mechanism to set dependencies as needed.

If this information is not given, an implementation should avoid using SPIs and instead use declarative services for dependency injection as specified by OSGi. Note that this also applies to several newInstance() methods in the Java API.

The class that created an instance with SPI must call this method before putting it to use.

newFactory

FileFormat newFactory(String identifier)

Creates a new file format with the specified identifier.

Parameters:

identifier - the identifier

Returns:

returns a new file format