Package org.openflexo.pamela.patterns

Class PatternDefinition

java.lang.Object

org.openflexo.pamela.patterns.PatternDefinition

public abstract class PatternDefinition
extends java.lang.Object

Abstract base class for an occurence of an Pattern. An instance is uniquely identified by the patternID field of associated annotations.
It has the responsibility of:

• Managing life-cycle of related PatternInstance, while beeing notified from the creation of new instances by the ModelFactory and ModelContext
• Tagging which methods have to be involved in pattern

The related AbstractPatternFactory has the responsability of managing life cycle of instance of PatternDefinition

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PatternDefinition(java.lang.String identifier, ModelContext modelContext)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract void	finalizeDefinition()
java.lang.String	getIdentifier()
ModelContext	getModelContext()
abstract boolean	isMethodInvolvedInPattern(java.lang.reflect.Method m)
abstract <I> void	notifiedNewInstance(I newInstance, ModelEntity<I> modelEntity)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PatternDefinition

public PatternDefinition(java.lang.String identifier,
                         ModelContext modelContext)

Method Detail

getIdentifier

public java.lang.String getIdentifier()

getModelContext

public ModelContext getModelContext()

finalizeDefinition

public abstract void finalizeDefinition()
                                 throws ModelDefinitionException

Throws:

ModelDefinitionException

isMethodInvolvedInPattern

public abstract boolean isMethodInvolvedInPattern(java.lang.reflect.Method m)

notifiedNewInstance

public abstract <I> void notifiedNewInstance(I newInstance,
                                             ModelEntity<I> modelEntity)