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The Service Provider Interfaces for developing HiveMQ plugins.

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package com.hivemq.spi;

import com.google.inject.AbstractModule;

/**
 * The HiveMQ Plugin Guice Module class from which you should inherit when writing a HiveMQ plugin.
 * 
 * The entryPointClass() must return a subclass of {@link PluginEntryPoint}.
 * It's possible to use Dependency Injection with Guice in this entry point
 *
 * @author Dominik Obermaier
 * @author Christoph Schäbel
 * @since 1.4
 */
public abstract class HiveMQPluginModule extends AbstractModule {

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected final void configure() {

        configurePlugin();

        //Bind the main entry class and immediately start injection
        bind(entryPointClass()).asEagerSingleton();
    }

    /**
     * This method should be used to configure the Guice Bindings and Guice Configurations.
     */
    protected abstract void configurePlugin();

    /**
     * Must return the main plugin class which is the "entry point" of the plugin.
     * 
     * Note: This plugin class can use Dependency Injection via Guice
     *
     * @return the main entry class
     */
    protected abstract Class entryPointClass();
}