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package org.glassfish.jersey.server.spi;

import java.util.Set;

import org.glassfish.hk2.api.ServiceLocator;

/**
 * Component provider interface to allow custom management of 3rd party
 * components life-cycle and dependency injection.
 * 
 * An implementation (a component-provider) identifies itself by placing a provider-configuration
 * file (if not already present), {@code org.glassfish.jersey.server.spi.ComponentProvider}
 * in the resource directory META-INF/services, and adding the fully
 * qualified service-provider-class of the implementation in the file.
 *
 * Jersey will not even try to inject component provider instances with Jersey artifacts.
 * The SPI providers should be designed so that no dependency injection is needed at the bind time phase.

 * @author Jakub Podlesak (jakub.podlesak at oracle.com)
 */
public interface ComponentProvider {


    /**
     * Initializes the component provider with a reference to a HK2 service locator
     * instance, which will get used in the application to manage individual components.
     * Providers should keep a reference to the HK2 service locator for later use.
     * This method will be invoked prior to any bind method calls.
     * The service locator parameter will not be fully initialized at the time of invocation
     * and should be used as a reference only.
     *
     * @param locator an HK2 service locator.
     */
    public void initialize(final ServiceLocator locator);

    /**
     * Jersey will invoke this method before binding of each component class internally
     * during initialization of it's HK2 service locator.
     *
     * If the component provider wants to bind the component class
     * itself, it must do so and return true. In that case, Jersey will not
     * bind the component and rely on the component provider in this regard.
     *
     * @param component a component (resource/provider) class.
     * @param providerContracts provider contracts implemented by given component.
     * @return true if the component class has been bound by the provider, false otherwise
     */
    public boolean bind(final Class component, Set> providerContracts);

    /**
     * Jersey will invoke this method after all component classes have been bound.
     *
     * If the component provider wants to do some actions after it has seen all component classes
     * registered with the application, this is the right place for the corresponding code.
     */
    public void done();
}