Interface Instantiator

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface Instantiator

An Instantiator is used get instances of classes, if needed creating those.

For classes annotated with Interaction, there can be only one instance per class of those per Runtime. Instances of interactions should be treated like runtime scoped singletons, so to speak.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
<T> T	instance(Class<T> clazz, Introspection introspection)	This method will be called each time an instance of a class is needed.

Method Details

instance

@IntrospectionAccess(RUNTIME)
<T> T instance(Class<T> clazz,
 Introspection introspection)

This method will be called each time an instance of a class is needed.

The provided Introspection instance or Introspection.accessScoped() can be used to retrieve other components/parts of this framework, e.g. MessageResolver.

Parameters:

clazz - the Class of needed instance

introspection - the Introspection instance of this runtime (stage = Stage.RUNTIME).