PredicateBasedRule.java

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package com.netflix.loadbalancer;

import com.google.common.base.Optional;

/**
 * A rule which delegates the server filtering logic to an instance of {@link AbstractServerPredicate}.
 * After filtering, a server is returned from filtered list in a round robin fashion.
 * 
 * 
 * @author awang
 *
 */
public abstract class PredicateBasedRule extends ClientConfigEnabledRoundRobinRule {
   
    /**
     * Method that provides an instance of {@link AbstractServerPredicate} to be used by this class.
     * 
     */
    public abstract AbstractServerPredicate getPredicate();
        
    /**
     * Get a server by calling {@link AbstractServerPredicate#chooseRandomlyAfterFiltering(java.util.List, Object)}.
     * The performance for this method is O(n) where n is number of servers to be filtered.
     */
    @Override
    public Server choose(Object key) {
        ILoadBalancer lb = getLoadBalancer();
        Optional<Server> server = getPredicate().chooseRoundRobinAfterFiltering(lb.getAllServers(), key);
        if (server.isPresent()) {
            return server.get();
        } else {
            return null;
        }       
    }
}