org.daisy.dotify.api.embosser.EmbosserProvider Maven / Gradle / Ivy
package org.daisy.dotify.api.embosser;
import org.daisy.dotify.api.factory.Provider;
/**
* Provides an interface for a collection of Embossers.
* @author Joel Håkansson
*
*/
public interface EmbosserProvider extends Provider {
/**
* Informs the implementation that it was discovered and instantiated using
* information collected from a file within the META-INF/services directory.
* In other words, it was created using SPI (service provider interfaces).
*
* This information, in turn, enables the implementation to use the same mechanism
* to set dependencies as needed.
*
* If this information is not given, an implementation
* should avoid using SPIs and instead use
* declarative services
* for dependency injection as specified by OSGi. Note that this also applies to
* several newInstance() methods in the Java API.
*
* The class that created an instance with SPI must call this method before
* putting it to use.
*/
public void setCreatedWithSPI();
/**
* Returns a new embosser with the specified identifier.
* @param identifier the identifier
* @return returns a new embosser
*/
public Embosser newFactory(String identifier);
}