/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * */ package org.apache.vysper.storage; /** * This registry bundles storage providers. It is primarily intended for * grouping for one kind of underlying storage, for example in-memory, SQL * or JCR, but custom mixed collections are possible. * * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org) */ public interface StorageProviderRegistry { /** * access the ready-to-go storage provider instance implementing the * given interface * @param clazz a class implementing StorageProvider * @return the fully initialized storage provider */ StorageProvider retrieve(Class<? extends StorageProvider> clazz); /** * adds a storage provider implementation to the registry * @param storageProvider */ void add(StorageProvider storageProvider); /** * adds a storage provider implementaton to the registry * the registry is responsible for instantiating the given class * @param storageProviderFullQualifiedClassname fully qualified * class name of the implementation. the implementation must have a public * no-argument constructor */ void add(String storageProviderFullQualifiedClassname); }