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package org.ehoffman.aop.context;

import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Repeatable;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInterceptor;
import org.ehoffman.advised.ObjectFactory;
import org.ehoffman.aop.context.internal.IoCContextAdvice;

@Target({ ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR, ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Repeatable(IoCContexts.class)
public @interface IoCContext {

  /**
   * Names can be used to identify specific ObjectFactories for method injection on a test, if no name is specified, then a default
   * name will be used, and parameters of the test will fail if the reference an annotation with a name that does not exits.
   * 
   * @return the name used to look up entities in this context
   */
  String name() default "__default";

  /**
   * Only meaningful when used as Parameter annotation. Specifies the name of an instance in a the object factory related to this
   * annotation we desire to be passed to the test as input at runtime.
   * 
   * @return the name of an instance in an {@link IoCContext}
   */
  String instance() default "__default";

  /**
   * Classes that define the context we wish to work with.
   * 
   * @return an array of classes used to build an IoCContext (the means of doing so is up to the {@link #objectFactoryClass()})
   */
  Class[] classes() default {};

  /**
   * Classes of object factory we wish to use, if none is specified a discovery of object factories will ensue, if only one is
   * supported by the current classloader, it will be used.
   * 
   * @return the implementation of {@link ObjectFactory} we wish to use to build the context
   */
  Class objectFactoryClass() default ObjectFactory.class;

  /**
   * {@link #implementedBy()} returns a Class that implements {@link org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInterceptor}. This field will
   * be accessed via reflection so the name must be exact. If the class also implements {@link java.io.Closeable} the
   * {@link java.io.Closeable#close()} method will be called at the close of the global context.
   * 
   * @return the {@link MethodInterceptor} used to build the context, should never need to be changed.
   */
  Class implementedBy() default IoCContextAdvice.class;
}




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