Package org.daisy.dotify.api.engine

Interface FormatterEngineFactoryService

public interface FormatterEngineFactoryService

Provides an interface for a FormatterEngineFactory service. The purpose of this interface is to expose an implementation of a FormaterEngine as a service.

To comply with this interface, an implementation must be thread safe and address both the possibility that only a single instance is created and used throughout and that new instances are created as desired.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
FormatterEngine	newFormatterEngine(String locale, String mode, PagedMediaWriter writer)	Returns a new FormatterEngine configured for the specified locale, mode and output writer.
FormatterEngine	newFormatterEngine(FormatterConfiguration config, PagedMediaWriter writer)	Returns a new FormatterEngine configured with the specified configuration and output writer
default void	setCreatedWithSPI()	Informs the implementation that it was discovered and instantiated using information collected from a file within the META-INF/services directory.

Method Detail

newFormatterEngine

FormatterEngine newFormatterEngine(String locale,
                                   String mode,
                                   PagedMediaWriter writer)

Returns a new FormatterEngine configured for the specified locale, mode and output writer.

Parameters:

locale - the locale

mode - the braille mode

writer - the output writer

Returns:

returns a new FormatterEngine

newFormatterEngine

FormatterEngine newFormatterEngine(FormatterConfiguration config,
                                   PagedMediaWriter writer)

Returns a new FormatterEngine configured with the specified configuration and output writer

Parameters:

config - the configuration

writer - the output writer

Returns:

returns a new instance

setCreatedWithSPI

default 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.