* propagated name change in module directory names and pom

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.synyx.de/var/svn/synyx/opensource/hera/trunk@3033 5a64d73e-33d6-4ccc-9058-23f8668ecac9

hera-core/src/main/java/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

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+Manifest-Version: 1.0
+Class-Path: 
+

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/Plugin.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core;
+
+/**
+ * Central interface for plugins for the system. This interface is meant to be
+ * extended by concrete plugin interfaces. Its core responsibility is to define
+ * a delimiter type and a selection callback with the delimiter as parameter.
+ * The delimiter is some kind of decision object concrete plugin implementations
+ * can use to decide if they are capable to be executed.
+ * 
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public interface Plugin<S> {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns if a plugin should be invoked according to the given delimiter.
+     * 
+     * @param delimiter
+     * @return if the plugin should be invoked
+     */
+    boolean supports(S delimiter);
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/PluginRegistry.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+
+/**
+ * Registry for plugins. Allows sophisticated typesafe access to implementations
+ * of interfaces extending {link Plugin}.
+ * 
+ * @param <T> the concrete plugin interface
+ * @param <S> the delimiter type
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class PluginRegistry<T extends Plugin<S>, S> implements Iterable<T> {
+
+    // Registered plugins
+    private List<T> plugins;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new {@code PluginRegistry}.
+     */
+    public PluginRegistry() {
+
+        plugins = new ArrayList<T>();
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new {@link PluginRegistry}.
+     * 
+     * @param <T>
+     * @param <S>
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static <T extends Plugin<S>, S> PluginRegistry<T, S> create() {
+
+        return new PluginRegistry<T, S>();
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Register plugins.
+     * 
+     * @param plugins the plugins to set
+     */
+    public void setPlugins(List<? extends T> plugins) {
+
+        this.plugins = new ArrayList<T>();
+        this.plugins.addAll(plugins);
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a given plugin to the registry.
+     * 
+     * @param plugin
+     */
+    public void addPlugin(T plugin) {
+
+        this.plugins.add(plugin);
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the first plugin found for the given originating system. Thus,
+     * further configured plugins are ignored.
+     * 
+     * @param originatingSystem
+     * @return a plugin for the given originating system or {@code null} if none
+     *         found
+     */
+    public T getPluginFor(S delimiter) {
+
+        List<T> plugins = getPluginsFor(delimiter);
+
+        if (0 < plugins.size()) {
+            return plugins.get(0);
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns all plugins for the given delimiter.
+     * 
+     * @param delimiter
+     * @return a list of plugins or an empty list if none found
+     */
+    public List<T> getPluginsFor(S delimiter) {
+
+        List<T> result = new ArrayList<T>();
+
+        for (T plugin : plugins) {
+            if (plugin.supports(delimiter)) {
+                result.add(plugin);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves a required plugin from the registry or throw the given
+     * exception if none can be found. If more than one plugins are found the
+     * first one will be returned.
+     * 
+     * @param <E> the exception type to be thrown in case no plugin can be found
+     * @param delimiter
+     * @param ex the exception to be thrown in case no plugin can be found
+     * @return a single plugin for the given delimiter
+     * @throws E if no plugin can be found for the given delimiter
+     */
+    public <E extends Exception> T getPluginFor(S delimiter, E ex) throws E {
+
+        T plugin = getPluginFor(delimiter);
+
+        if (null == plugin) {
+            throw ex;
+        }
+
+        return plugin;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves all plugins for the given delimiter or throws an exception if
+     * no plugin can be found.
+     * 
+     * @param <E> the exception type to be thrown
+     * @param delimiter
+     * @param ex
+     * @return all plugins for the given delimiter
+     * @throws E if no plugin can be found
+     */
+    public <E extends Exception> List<T> getPluginsFor(S delimiter, E ex)
+            throws E {
+
+        List<T> plugins = getPluginsFor(delimiter);
+
+        if (0 == plugins.size()) {
+            throw ex;
+        }
+
+        return plugins;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the first {@link Plugin} supporting the given delimiter or the
+     * given plugin if none can be found.
+     * 
+     * @param delimiter
+     * @param plugin
+     * @return a single {@link Plugin} supporting the given delimiter or the
+     *         given {@link Plugin} if none found
+     */
+    public T getPluginFor(S delimiter, T plugin) {
+
+        T candidate = getPluginFor(delimiter);
+
+        return null == candidate ? plugin : candidate;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns all {@link Plugin}s supporting the given delimiter or the given
+     * plugins if none found.
+     * 
+     * @param delimiter
+     * @param plugins
+     * @return all {@link Plugin}s supporting the given delimiter or the given
+     *         {@link Plugin}s if none found
+     */
+    public List<T> getPluginsFor(S delimiter, List<T> plugins) {
+
+        List<T> candidates = getPluginsFor(delimiter);
+
+        return candidates.size() == 0 ? plugins : candidates;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of registered plugins.
+     * 
+     * @return the number of plugins in the registry
+     */
+    public int countPlugins() {
+
+        return plugins.size();
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns all registered plugins. Only use this method if you really need
+     * to access all plugins. For distinguished access to certain plugins favour
+     * accessor methods like {link #getPluginFor} over this one. This method
+     * should only be used for testing purposes to check registry configuration.
+     * <p>
+     * TODO: decide whether to make this method public
+     * 
+     * @return all plugins of the registry
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+    private List<? extends T> getPlugins() {
+
+        return plugins;
+    }
+
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see java.lang.Iterable#iterator()
+     */
+    public Iterator<T> iterator() {
+
+        return plugins.iterator();
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/config/PluginListDefinitionParser.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core.config;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ManagedMap;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser;
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+
+
+/**
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class PluginListDefinitionParser extends
+        AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser {
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see
+     * org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser
+     * #getBeanClassName(org.w3c.dom.Element)
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected String getBeanClassName(Element element) {
+
+        return "org.synyx.plugin.core.support.BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor";
+    }
+
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see
+     * org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser
+     * #doParse(org.w3c.dom.Element,
+     * org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder)
+     */
+    @Override
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    protected void doParse(Element element, BeanDefinitionBuilder builder) {
+
+        ManagedMap map = new ManagedMap();
+        map.put(element.getAttribute("id"), element.getAttribute("class"));
+
+        builder.addPropertyValue("lists", map);
+
+        String initFactories = element.getAttribute("init-factories");
+
+        if (StringUtils.hasText(initFactories)) {
+            builder.addPropertyValue("allowEagerInit", initFactories);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @seeorg.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractBeanDefinitionParser#
+     * shouldGenerateId()
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected boolean shouldGenerateId() {
+
+        return true;
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/config/PluginNamespaceHandler.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ * 
+ * Licensed 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.synyx.plugin.core.config;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport;
+
+
+/**
+ * Simple namespace handler for {@literal dao-config} namespace.
+ * 
+ * @author Eberhard Wolff
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class PluginNamespaceHandler extends NamespaceHandlerSupport {
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandler#init()
+     */
+    public void init() {
+
+        registerBeanDefinitionParser("list", new PluginListDefinitionParser());
+        registerBeanDefinitionParser("registry",
+                new PluginRegistryDefinitionParser());
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/config/PluginRegistryDefinitionParser.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core.config;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+
+
+/**
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class PluginRegistryDefinitionParser extends PluginListDefinitionParser {
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see
+     * org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser
+     * #getBeanClassName(org.w3c.dom.Element)
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected String getBeanClassName(Element element) {
+
+        return "org.synyx.plugin.core.support.PluginRegistryBeanFactoryPostProcessor";
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/config/package.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<body>
+This package contains configuration support classes to ease registry configuration with
+Spring namespaces.
+</body>
+</html>

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/package.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<body>
+This package contains the core plugin API. It allows other modules implementing 
+components that extend functionality defined by a plugin interface. Plugin clients 
+can be equipped with plugin implementations. 
+</body>
+</html>

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/support/BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core.support;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanFactoryPostProcessor;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ListFactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.RuntimeBeanReference;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionRegistry;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ManagedList;
+import org.synyx.plugin.core.PluginRegistry;
+
+
+/**
+ * Simple {@link BeanFactoryPostProcessor} to autocreate lists of the configured
+ * {@code lists} property. The post processor will register
+ * {@link ListFactoryBean}s for each list named with the given key containing
+ * all beans of the {@link org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext}
+ * implementing the interface defines as lists value. E.g.:
+ * 
+ * <pre>
+ * &lt;bean class=&quot;org.synyx.plugin.core.support.BeanListFactoryPostProcessor&quot;&gt;
+ *    &lt;property name=&quot;lists&quot;&gt;
+ *       &lt;map&gt;
+ *          &lt;entry key=&quot;beanName&quot; value=&quot;org.synyx.plugin.core.Plugin&quot; /&gt;
+ *       &lt;/map&gt;
+ *    &lt;/property&gt;
+ * &lt;/bean&gt;
+ * </pre>
+ * 
+ * This would register all Spring beans implementing the
+ * {@link org.synyx.plugin.core.Plugin} interface in a list bean with the name
+ * {@coder beanName}.
+ * 
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor implements
+        BeanFactoryPostProcessor {
+
+    private static final Log log =
+            LogFactory.getLog(BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor.class);
+
+    private Map<String, Class<?>> lists = new HashMap<String, Class<?>>();
+
+    private boolean initFactories = false;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Setter to inject required plugin registry configuration. The map's keys
+     * will be used as bean ids for the resulting {@link PluginRegistry}
+     * instances. These registry instances will contain all beans having the
+     * given type.
+     * 
+     * @param registryMap
+     */
+    public void setLists(Map<String, Class<?>> lists) {
+
+        this.lists = lists;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Setter to activate {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean}
+     * scanning. This allows auto-registration of factory bean targets (the
+     * objects actually created by the factory bean} but comes with the drawback
+     * of having to initialize those factories eagerly. This can cause
+     * unpredictable behaviour if other {@link BeanFactoryPostProcessor}s would
+     * have been applied to these factories. Defaults to {@value #initFactories}
+     * .
+     * 
+     * @param initFactories the allowEagerInit to set
+     */
+    public void setInitFactories(boolean initFactories) {
+
+        this.initFactories = initFactories;
+    }
+
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @seeorg.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanFactoryPostProcessor#
+     * postProcessBeanFactory
+     * (org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory
+     * )
+     */
+    public void postProcessBeanFactory(
+            ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException {
+
+        if (!(beanFactory instanceof BeanDefinitionRegistry)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "Given beanFactory is not a BeanDefinitionRegistry!");
+        }
+
+        BeanDefinitionRegistry registry = (BeanDefinitionRegistry) beanFactory;
+
+        // Do for each required wrapper
+        for (String wrapperName : lists.keySet()) {
+
+            Class<?> requiredType = lists.get(wrapperName);
+
+            // Find implementations of the component type
+            List<RuntimeBeanReference> beans =
+                    getBeanReferencesOfType(beanFactory, requiredType);
+
+            registerListBeanDefinition(wrapperName, requiredType, beans,
+                    registry);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Registers a {@link ListFactoryBean} containing the given beans under the
+     * given id. Allows subclasses to modify or wrap the actually registered
+     * bean definition by calling
+     * {@link #wrapListBeanDefinition(BeanDefinition)} with the bean definition
+     * of the {<7B>linl {@link ListFactoryBean}.
+     * 
+     * @param id
+     * @param beans
+     * @param registry
+     */
+    protected <T> void registerListBeanDefinition(String id, Class<T> type,
+            List<RuntimeBeanReference> beans, BeanDefinitionRegistry registry) {
+
+        // Create ListFactory bean definition
+        BeanDefinitionBuilder listDefinitionBuilder =
+                BeanDefinitionBuilder.rootBeanDefinition(ListFactoryBean.class);
+
+        // Set the implementations as source for the wrapper
+        listDefinitionBuilder.addPropertyValue("sourceList", beans);
+
+        BeanDefinition beanDefinition =
+                wrapListBeanDefinition(getSourcedBeanDefinition(listDefinitionBuilder));
+
+        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            log.debug(String.format(
+                    "Registering bean '%s' of type %s containing %s!", id,
+                    beanDefinition.getBeanClassName(), beans.toString()));
+        }
+
+        // Register wrapper under defined name
+        registry.registerBeanDefinition(id, beanDefinition);
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Template method to allow subclasses to wrap the list bean definition into
+     * another bean definition that will actually be registered. The default
+     * implementation simply returns the given bean definition.
+     * 
+     * @param beanDefinition
+     * @return
+     */
+    protected BeanDefinition wrapListBeanDefinition(
+            BeanDefinition beanDefinition) {
+
+        return beanDefinition;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a {@link BeanDefinitionBuilder}s {@link BeanDefinition} setting
+     * the current {@link PluginRegistryBeanFactoryPostProcessor} as source.
+     * 
+     * @param builder
+     * @return
+     */
+    protected BeanDefinition getSourcedBeanDefinition(
+            BeanDefinitionBuilder builder) {
+
+        AbstractBeanDefinition beanDefinition = builder.getBeanDefinition();
+        beanDefinition.setSource(this);
+
+        return beanDefinition;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns bean references to beans with the given type.
+     * 
+     * @param beanFactory
+     * @param type
+     * @return
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    protected List<RuntimeBeanReference> getBeanReferencesOfType(
+            ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory, Class<?> type) {
+
+        // Lookup bean candidates either via Spring or manually
+        List<String> beanNames =
+                Arrays.asList(beanFactory.getBeanNamesForType(type, true,
+                        initFactories));
+
+        List<RuntimeBeanReference> beanReferences =
+                new ManagedList(beanNames.size());
+
+        for (String beanName : beanNames) {
+
+            RuntimeBeanReference reference = new RuntimeBeanReference(beanName);
+            reference.setSource(this);
+
+            beanReferences.add(reference);
+        }
+
+        return (List<RuntimeBeanReference>) beanReferences;
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/support/PluginRegistryBeanFactoryPostProcessor.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core.support;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanFactoryPostProcessor;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder;
+import org.synyx.plugin.core.PluginRegistry;
+
+
+/**
+ * This {@link BeanFactoryPostProcessor} automatically looksup bean instances
+ * from the {@link BeanFactory} hierarchy and registers {@link PluginRegistry}
+ * instances for them.
+ * 
+ * @see org.synyx.plugin.core.support.BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class PluginRegistryBeanFactoryPostProcessor extends
+        BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor {
+
+    /**
+     * Additionally wraps the
+     * {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ListFactoryBean}
+     * {@link BeanDefinition} into a {@link PluginRegistry}.
+     * 
+     * @see com.synyx.minos.core.plugin.support.BeanListBeanFactoryPostProcessor#
+     *      wrapBeanDefinition
+     *      (org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition)
+     * @return a {@link BeanDefinition} containing a {@link PluginRegistry}
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected BeanDefinition wrapListBeanDefinition(
+            BeanDefinition beanDefinition) {
+
+        // Create PluginRegistry bean definition to wrap actual bean definition
+        BeanDefinitionBuilder builder =
+                BeanDefinitionBuilder.rootBeanDefinition(PluginRegistry.class);
+
+        builder.addPropertyValue("plugins", beanDefinition);
+
+        return getSourcedBeanDefinition(builder);
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/main/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/support/package.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<body>
+This package contains support classes to create bean lists or plugin
+registry instances out of beans implementing a certain interface.
+</body>
+</html>

hera-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

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+Manifest-Version: 1.0
+Bundle-Name: Synyx Hades Bundle
+Bundle-SymbolicName: org.synyx.hades
+Bundle-Version: 0.0.1
+Export-Package: org.synyx.hades.dao;specification-version="0.0.1",
+ org.synyx.hades.dao.orm;specification-version="0.0.1",
+ org.synyx.hades.dao.orm.support;specification-version="0.0.1",
+ org.synyx.hades.dao.test;specification-version="0.0.1",
+ org.synyx.hades.domain;specification-version="0.0.1",
+ org.synyx.hades.domain.support;specification-version="0.0.1"
+Import-Package: javax.persistence,
+ org.aopalliance.intercept,
+ org.apache.commons.logging,
+ org.aspectj.lang.annotation;optional=true,
+ org.hibernate;optional=true,
+ org.hibernate.criterion;optional=true,
+ org.hibernate.ejb;optional=true,
+ org.springframework.aop.framework,
+ org.springframework.beans.factory,
+ org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation,
+ org.springframework.beans.factory.config,
+ org.springframework.beans.factory.support,
+ org.springframework.beans.factory.xml,
+ org.springframework.dao.annotation,
+ org.springframework.orm.jpa,
+ org.springframework.stereotype,
+ org.w3c.dom

hera-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.handlers

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+http\://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin=org.synyx.plugin.core.config.PluginNamespaceHandler

hera-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.schemas

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+http\://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin/plugin-config.xsd=org/synyx/plugin/core/config/plugin-config.xsd

hera-core/src/main/resources/org/synyx/plugin/core/config/plugin-config.xsd

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<xsd:schema xmlns="http://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin"
+	xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:tool="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool"
+	targetNamespace="http://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin"
+	elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
+	
+	<xsd:import namespace="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool"/>
+	
+
+	<xsd:element name="list" type="pluginType">
+		<xsd:annotation>
+			<xsd:appinfo>
+				<tool:annotation>
+					<tool:exports identifier="@id" type="java.util.List" />
+				</tool:annotation>
+			</xsd:appinfo>
+		</xsd:annotation>
+	</xsd:element>
+	
+	<xsd:element name="registry" type="pluginType">
+		<xsd:annotation>
+			<xsd:appinfo>
+				<tool:annotation>
+					<tool:exports identifier="@id" type="org.synyx.plugin.core.PluginRegistry" />
+				</tool:annotation>
+			</xsd:appinfo>
+		</xsd:annotation>
+	</xsd:element>
+	
+	<xsd:complexType name="pluginType">
+		<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string" />
+		<xsd:attribute name="class" type="classType" />
+		<xsd:attribute name="init-factories" type="xsd:boolean" />
+	</xsd:complexType>
+	
+	<xsd:simpleType name="classType">
+		<xsd:annotation>
+			<xsd:appinfo>
+                <tool:annotation kind="direct">
+                     <tool:expected-type type="java.lang.Class" />
+                 </tool:annotation>
+             </xsd:appinfo>
+		</xsd:annotation>
+		<xsd:union memberTypes="xsd:string" />
+	</xsd:simpleType>
+
+</xsd:schema>

hera-core/src/test/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/PluginRegistryUnitTest.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+
+/**
+ * Unit test for {@link PluginRegistry}.
+ * 
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class PluginRegistryUnitTest {
+
+    private SamplePlugin provider;
+
+    private PluginRegistry<SamplePlugin, String> registry;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Initializes a {@code PluginRegistry} and equips it with an {@code
+     * EmailNotificationProvider}.
+     */
+    @Before
+    public void setUp() {
+
+        provider = new SamplePluginImplementation();
+
+        registry = PluginRegistry.create();
+        registry.setPlugins(Arrays.asList(provider));
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Asserts asking for a plugin with the {@code PluginMetadata} provided by
+     * the {@link EmailNotificationProvider}.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void assertFindsEmailNotificationProvider() {
+
+        String metadata = "FOO";
+
+        List<SamplePlugin> plugins = registry.getPluginsFor(metadata);
+        Assert.assertNotNull(plugins);
+        Assert.assertEquals(1, plugins.size());
+
+        SamplePlugin provider = plugins.get(0);
+        Assert.assertTrue(provider instanceof SamplePluginImplementation);
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/test/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/SamplePlugin.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core;
+
+/**
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public interface SamplePlugin extends Plugin<String> {
+
+    void pluginMethod();
+}

hera-core/src/test/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/SamplePluginImplementation.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core;
+
+/**
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+public class SamplePluginImplementation implements SamplePlugin {
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see org.synyx.plugin.core.Plugin#supports(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    public boolean supports(String delimiter) {
+
+        return "FOO".equals(delimiter);
+    }
+
+
+    /*
+     * (non-Javadoc)
+     * 
+     * @see org.synyx.plugin.core.ISamplePlugin#pluginMethod()
+     */
+    public void pluginMethod() {
+
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/test/java/org/synyx/plugin/core/config/PluginConfigurationIntegrationTest.java

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+package org.synyx.plugin.core.config;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.synyx.plugin.core.PluginRegistry;
+import org.synyx.plugin.core.SamplePlugin;
+
+
+/**
+ * Integration test to simply check if the configuration gets parsed correctly.
+ * 
+ * @author Oliver Gierke - gierke@synyx.de
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:application-context.xml")
+public class PluginConfigurationIntegrationTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    List<SamplePlugin> samplePlugins;
+
+    @Autowired
+    PluginRegistry<SamplePlugin, String> pluginRegistry;
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void test() throws Exception {
+
+    }
+}

hera-core/src/test/resources/application-context.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:plugin="http://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+		http://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin http://www.synyx.org/schema/plugin/plugin-config.xsd">
+
+	<plugin:list id="foo" class="org.synyx.plugin.core.SamplePlugin" />
+	
+	<plugin:registry id="bar" class="org.synyx.plugin.core.SamplePlugin" />
+	
+	<bean class="org.synyx.plugin.core.SamplePluginImplementation" />
+
+</beans>

hera-core/src/test/resources/log4j.properties

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+# Direct log messages to stdout
+log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
+
+# Root logger option
+log4j.rootLogger=WARN, stdout
+
+# Hibernate logging options (INFO only shows startup messages)
+log4j.logger.org.springframework=INFO
+log4j.logger.org.synyx.plugin=DEBUG