brooklyn.entity.drivers
Interface EntityDriverManager

All Superinterfaces:

EntityDriverFactory

public interface EntityDriverManager
extends EntityDriverFactory

Responsible for creating a driver for a given entity/location. Also used for customizing which type of driver should be used by entities in given locations. The idea is that an entity should not be tightly coupled to a specific driver implementation, so that there is flexibility for driver changes, without changing the entity itself. The advantage is that drivers can easily be reconfigured, replaced or new drivers for different environments can be added, without needing to modify Brooklyn. To obtain an instance of a driver, use build(DriverDependentEntity, Location). This will use the registered driver types, or if one is not registered will fallback to the default strategy.

Method Summary

<D extends EntityDriver> D	build(DriverDependentEntity<D> entity, Location location) Builds a new EntityDriver for the given entity/location.
<D extends EntityDriver> void	registerDriver(Class<D> driverInterface, Class<? extends Location> locationClazz, Class<? extends D> driverClazz)

Method Detail

build

<D extends EntityDriver> D build(DriverDependentEntity<D> entity,
                                 Location location)

Builds a new EntityDriver for the given entity/location.

Specified by:

build in interface EntityDriverFactory

Type Parameters:

D -

Parameters:

entity - the DriverDependentEntity to create the EntityDriver for.

location - the Location where the DriverDependentEntity is running.

Returns:

the creates EntityDriver.

registerDriver

<D extends EntityDriver> void registerDriver(Class<D> driverInterface,
                                             Class<? extends Location> locationClazz,
                                             Class<? extends D> driverClazz)