001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 003 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 004 * distributed with this work for additional information 005 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 006 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 007 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 008 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 013 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 014 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 015 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 016 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 017 * under the License. 018 */ 019 package org.apache.directory.server.core.factory; 020 021 022 import org.apache.directory.server.core.DirectoryService; 023 024 025 /** 026 * A factory used to generate differently configured DirectoryService objects. 027 * Since the DirectoryService itself is what is configured then a factory for 028 * these objects acts as a configurator. Tests can provide different factory 029 * methods to be used. 030 * 031 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory Project</a> 032 * @version $Rev$, $Date$ 033 */ 034 public interface DirectoryServiceFactory 035 { 036 037 /** 038 * Inits the directory service factory. 039 * 040 * @param name the name 041 */ 042 void init( String name ) throws Exception; 043 044 045 /** 046 * Gets the directory service. 047 * 048 * @return the directory service 049 */ 050 DirectoryService getDirectoryService() throws Exception; 051 052 053 /** 054 * Gets the partition factory. 055 * 056 * @return the partition factory 057 */ 058 PartitionFactory getPartitionFactory() throws Exception; 059 }