com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.expand.resolver
Class AbstractAnnotationEntityExpanderResolver

java.lang.Object
  com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.expand.resolver.AbstractAnnotationEntityExpanderResolver

All Implemented Interfaces:

EntityExpanderResolver

public abstract class AbstractAnnotationEntityExpanderResolver
extends java.lang.Object
implements EntityExpanderResolver

An EntityExpander resolver that uses the Expander annotation for resolution.

Implementation must implement getEntityExpander(Expander)

Constructor Summary

AbstractAnnotationEntityExpanderResolver()

Method Summary

protected abstract EntityExpander<?>	getEntityExpander(Expander expander) Retrieves the EntityExpander associated to the Expander annotation.
<T> EntityExpander<T>	getExpander(java.lang.Class<? extends T> type) Gets an EntityExpander for the given type.
boolean	hasExpander(java.lang.Class<?> type) Tells whether this resolver can get an expander for the given instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbstractAnnotationEntityExpanderResolver

public AbstractAnnotationEntityExpanderResolver()

Method Detail

hasExpander

public boolean hasExpander(java.lang.Class<?> type)

Description copied from interface: EntityExpanderResolver

Tells whether this resolver can get an expander for the given instance.

Specified by:

hasExpander in interface EntityExpanderResolver

Parameters:

type - the type to resolve the expander for.

Returns:

true if an expander can be found for this object instance, false otherwise.

getExpander

public final <T> EntityExpander<T> getExpander(java.lang.Class<? extends T> type)

Description copied from interface: EntityExpanderResolver

Gets an EntityExpander for the given type.

Specified by:

getExpander in interface EntityExpanderResolver

Type Parameters:

T - the type of object to retrieve the expander for.

Parameters:

type - the type of object to look up the expander for.

Returns:

the EntityExpander, null if none could be found. This method will never return null if EntityExpanderResolver.hasExpander(Class) returns true for the same instance.

getEntityExpander

protected abstract EntityExpander<?> getEntityExpander(Expander expander)

Retrieves the EntityExpander associated to the Expander annotation. The entity expander is created if necessary.

Parameters:

expander - the annotation

Returns:

an instance of EntityExpander