Package de.fraunhofer.iese.mydata.registry

Class InterfaceDescriptionDiscovery

java.lang.Object

de.fraunhofer.iese.mydata.registry.InterfaceDescriptionDiscovery

public class InterfaceDescriptionDiscovery
extends Object

Generates a List of MethodInterfaceDescription by introspecting a class. Therefor the discovery lists all methods that is annotated with an Annotation of Type ActionDescription and creates an instance of MethodInterfaceDescription with the information provided by the MethodSignature, the annotation and the ActionParameterDescription annotations of each method parameter. For Example The Method

 @ActionDescription(description = "Retreives the authority (role) of an user")
  public String getAuthority(@ActionParameterDescription(name = "username", description = "The user the authority should be evaluated for.", mandatory = true) String username) {
  }
 

Results in an InterfaceDescription with:

• name = getAuthority
• description = Retreives the authority (role) of an user
• parameter =
  • InputParameterDescription: name = username, description = The user the authority should be evaluated for, mandatory = true

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
InterfaceDescriptionDiscovery()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Map<MethodInterfaceDescription,Method>	discover(Class<?> serviceClass, ComponentType type, SolutionId solutionId)	Discover.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

InterfaceDescriptionDiscovery

public InterfaceDescriptionDiscovery()

Method Details

discover

public Map<MethodInterfaceDescription,Method> discover(Class<?> serviceClass,
 ComponentType type,
 SolutionId solutionId)
                                                throws InvalidEntityException

Discover.

Parameters:

serviceClass - the class of the service

type - the type

solutionId - the solution id

Returns:

the map

Throws:

InvalidEntityException - when solutionId is invalid or when the serviceClass is not a valid MyData Component (e.g. when not every parameter of an action is annotated)