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/*
* Copyright (c) 2007, 2011-2013, 2015 Eike Stepper (Loehne, Germany) and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation
* Christian W. Damus (CEA) - bug 399641: container-aware factories
*/
package org.eclipse.net4j.util.factory;
import org.eclipse.net4j.util.container.IManagedContainer;
import org.eclipse.net4j.util.container.IManagedContainerFactory;
/**
* {@link #create(String) Creates} objects from a string {@link #getDescriptionFor(Object) description}.
* <p>
* If a factory is registered in an {@link IManagedContainer}, the {@link IManagedContainerFactory} extension interface
* injects that container into the factory for it to reach back into to obtain dependencies.
*
* @author Eike Stepper
* @apiviz.landmark
* @apiviz.has {@link IFactoryKey}
*
* @see IManagedContainerFactory
*/
public interface IFactory
{
public IFactoryKey getKey();
public Object create(String description) throws ProductCreationException;
public String getDescriptionFor(Object product);
}
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