com.lexmark.saperion.client.spi

Interface ConnectorFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConnectorFactoryImpl

public interface ConnectorFactory

This is the service interface implementations need to register. An instance of ConnectorFactory is able to create a new connector with given configuration values - dependant on the implementation - that is bound to a specific saperion backend.

Author:

jschwarz

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static ConnectorFactory	loadConnectorFactory() This method is a convenience method to retrieve an implementation of this service interface using the java service loader.
default Connector	newConnector() This method creates a new connector configured by with default configuration properties.
Connector	newConnector(Map<String,String> properties) This method creates a new connector configured by the given configuration properties.
default Connector	newConnector(Properties properties) This method creates a new connector configured by the given configuration properties.

Method Detail

newConnector

Connector newConnector(Map<String,String> properties)

This method creates a new connector configured by the given configuration properties.

Parameters:

properties - the configuration properties.

Returns:

a new connector configured by the given configuration properties

newConnector

default Connector newConnector()

This method creates a new connector configured by with default configuration properties.

Returns:

a new connector configured with default configuration properties

newConnector

default Connector newConnector(Properties properties)

This method creates a new connector configured by the given configuration properties.

Parameters:

properties - the configuration properties.

Returns:

a new connector configured by the given configuration properties

loadConnectorFactory

static ConnectorFactory loadConnectorFactory()

This method is a convenience method to retrieve an implementation of this service interface using the java service loader. It will warn when there are several implementations present and chose a arbitrary one.

Returns:

an implementation of this service interface

Throws:

IllegalStateException - when no implementation of the service interface is present in the classpath