net.sf.mmm.util.context.api
Interface GenericContextFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractGenericContextFactory, GenericContextFactoryImpl

@ComponentSpecification
public interface GenericContextFactory

This is the interface for a factory of generic contexts.

Since:

1.1.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

MutableGenericContext	createContext() This method creates a new instance of a MutableGenericContext.
MutableGenericContext	createContext(MapFactory<? extends Map> mapFactory) This method creates a new instance of a MutableGenericContext using the given MapFactory.
MutableGenericContext	createContext(MapFactory<? extends Map> mapFactory, GenericValueConverter<Object> valueConverter) This method creates a new instance of a MutableGenericContext using the given MapFactory.

Method Detail

createContext

MutableGenericContext createContext()

This method creates a new instance of a MutableGenericContext. It will use a HashMapFactory and delegate to createContext(MapFactory).
ATTENTION:
Such context is usually suitable even if child-contexts are created and passed to other threads while the original thread is modifying the original context as proved in the according test-case. However HashMap.get(Object) is not academically thread-safe so if you need mission-critical safety, you might want to pass ConcurrentHashMapFactory to createContext(MapFactory).

Returns:

the new context.

createContext

MutableGenericContext createContext(MapFactory<? extends Map> mapFactory)

This method creates a new instance of a MutableGenericContext using the given MapFactory.

Parameters:

mapFactory - is the factory used to create maps for the underlying context.

Returns:

the new context.

createContext

MutableGenericContext createContext(MapFactory<? extends Map> mapFactory,
                                    GenericValueConverter<Object> valueConverter)

This method creates a new instance of a MutableGenericContext using the given MapFactory.

Parameters:

mapFactory - is the factory used to create maps for the underlying context.

valueConverter - is the GenericValueConverter used for converting variables if requested for a different type.

Returns:

the new context.

Since:

2.0.0