Interfaces

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Last updated: Nov 18, 2010 by Ben ClinkinbeardVersion comment
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Swiz provides several interfaces to enable manual control over certain features, or as an alternative to using certain metadata tags.

ISetUpValidator

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to invoke the allowSetUp() method of the bean before the bean is set up. If this method returns true, set up will proceed. If it returns false, Swiz will not set up the bean.

ITearDownValidator

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to invoke the allowTearDown() method of the bean before the bean is torn down. If this method returns true, tear down will proceed. If it returns false, Swiz will not tear down the bean.

ISetUpValidator and ITearDownValidator are primarily meant for use in view components, to allow specific views to opt out of set up or tear down. In these cases, the developer can manually control set up or tear down of the views.

IInitializing

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to invoke the afterPropertiesSet() method of the bean after the bean is set up.

IDisposable

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to invoke the destroy() method of the bean when the bean is destroyed

IDispatcherAware

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to inject an IEventDispatcher into the bean's dispatcher property when it is set up.

Best Practice

In order to minimize coupling to the Swiz framework, using the [PostConstruct], [PreDestroy] and [Dispatcher] metadata tags should be favored over use of IInitializing, IDisposable and IDispatcherAware.

IBeanFactoryAware

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to inject the Swiz IBeanFactory into the bean's beanFactory property when it is set up.

ISwizAware

Implementing this interface will instruct Swiz to inject itself into the bean's swiz property when it is set up.