com.cloudera.gertrude

Interface ConditionFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositeConditionFactory, ReflectionConditionFactory

public interface ConditionFactory

Associates a set of names with implementations of the Condition interface and creates new instances of those implementations on request from a client.

A ConditionFactory must be registered in the Experiments namespace before the ExperimentHandler for this server can be used by clients.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Condition<ExperimentState>	create(String name) Creates a new Condition instance that is associated with the given name.
Set<String>	supportedNames() Returns the set of names that have been associated with subclasses of the Condition interface in this instance.

Method Detail

supportedNames

Set<String> supportedNames()

Returns the set of names that have been associated with subclasses of the Condition interface in this instance.

Returns:

the set of known names that will return a valid result from the create(java.lang.String) method

create

Condition<ExperimentState> create(String name)

Creates a new Condition instance that is associated with the given name.

Parameters:

name - a short name used to describe the Condition instance to create

Returns:

a new Condition instance, or null if the name is unknown