/*
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Israfil Consulting Services Corporation
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Christian Edward Gruber
 * All Rights Reserved
 * 
 * This software is licensed under the Berkeley Standard Distribution license,
 * (BSD license), as defined below:
 * 
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 *
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this 
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 * 
 * $Id: Copyright.java 618 2008-04-14 14:03:03Z christianedwardgruber $
 */
package net.israfil.foundation.container;

/** 
 * An adapter interface that's used in the "AutoWiringContainer"
 * to allow the user to specify a component's dependencies upon registration.
 * This is not ideal, in that it's not auto-discovered constructor-based 
 * dependency injection, but since dynamic reflection is not available in the 
 * J2ME CLDC 1.1 spec, an alternate and generic injection mechanism 
 * is necessary.  Implementors of this interface should be CLDC safe.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:cgruber@israfil.net">Christian Edward Gruber </a>
 */
public interface AutoWiringAdapter {

	/** 
	 * This method should return a list of keys defining the dependencies
	 * this object requires to operate, in the order expected by the
	 * create(Object[]) method.
	 */
	public Object[] dependencies();
	
	/** 
	 * Returns the type that this adapter will create.  This should be the 
	 * most concrete (narrowest) common type this adapter will create, if 
	 * there is more than one possibility.
	 */
	public Class getType();

	/** 
	 * A method that implementors use to create a component given a set of 
	 * parameters.  Callers must return the parameters in the order provided
	 * by the dependencies() method.
	 */
	public Object create(Object[] parameters) throws IllegalAccessException, InstantiationException;

}