Annotation Type ChildInject


This Injection point indicator can be used for services that have a hierarchical names. The name space of the name fields of the ActiveDescriptors must form a directed acyclical graph. For example, this is useful if using a naming scheme based on an XML hierarchy.

If the injection point of this annotation is of type ChildIterable then the generic type of the ChildIterable must contain the Type of the underlying service, and the ChildIterable will contain all of the children services whose name starts with the name of the parent ActiveDescriptor appended with the value field of this annotation.

If the injection point is NOT a ChildIterable then the type is as per a normal injection point, but the chosen instance of that type will have a name that starts with the name of the parent ActiveDescriptor appended with the value field of this annotation

  • Optional Element Summary

    Optional Elements
    Modifier and Type
    Optional Element
    Description
    This field returns the separator that is used to separate heirarchical name fields, for use by the ChildIterable.byKey(String) method.
    The string that will be appended to the name field of the ActiveDescriptor of the parent of this injection point
  • Element Details

    • value

      String value
      The string that will be appended to the name field of the ActiveDescriptor of the parent of this injection point
      Returns:
      The value to append to the name field of the ActiveDescriptor of the parent of this injection point
      Default:
      ""
    • separator

      String separator
      This field returns the separator that is used to separate heirarchical name fields, for use by the ChildIterable.byKey(String) method. This value will be pre-pended to the name given to the ChildIterable.byKey(String) key parameter
      Returns:
      The separator used to separate a hierachical namespace
      Default:
      "."