Implemented support for component-based shenanigans.

By default, only a source for retrieving components from streams
is implemented

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/BJC-Utils2/src/main/java/bjc/utils/components/IComponentRepository.java b/BJC-Utils2/src/main/java/bjc/utils/components/IComponentRepository.java
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+package bjc.utils.components;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import bjc.utils.funcdata.FunctionalList;
+
+/**
+ * A collection of implementations of {@link IDescribedComponent}
+ * 
+ * @author ben
+ *
+ */
+public interface IComponentRepository<E extends IDescribedComponent> {
+	/**
+	 * Get a list of all the registered componets
+	 * 
+	 * @return A list of all the registered components
+	 */
+	public FunctionalList<E> getComponentList();
+
+	/**
+	 * Get all of the components this repository knows about
+	 * 
+	 * @return A map from component name to component, containing all of
+	 *         the components in the repositorys
+	 */
+	public Map<String, E> getComponents();
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the source from which these components came
+	 * 
+	 * @return The source from which these components came
+	 */
+	public String getSource();
+}