Dynamic Strategy Pattern [migrated]

Posted by Karl Barker on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Karl Barker
Published on 2012-12-08T00:04:52Z Indexed on 2012/12/08 11:35 UTC
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So I'm writing a web service architecture which includes FunctionProvider classes which do the actual processing of requests, and a main Endpoint class which receives and delegates requests to the proper FunctionProvider.

I don't know exactly the FunctionProviders available at runtime, so I need to be able to 'register' (if that's the right word) them with my main Endpoint class, and query them to see if they match an incoming request.

public class MyFunc implements FunctionProvider{
  static {
    MyEndpoint.register(MyFunc);
  }
  public Boolean matchesRequest(Request req){...}
  public void processRequest(Request req){...}
}

public class MyEndpoint{
  private static ArrayList<FunctionProvider> functions = new ArrayList<FunctionProvider>();
  public void register(Class clz){
    functions.add(clz);
  }
  public void doPost(Request request){
    //find the FunctionProvider in functions
    //matching the request
  }
}

I've really not done much reflective Java like this (and the above is likely wrong, but hopefully demonstrates my intentions).

What's the nicest way to implement this without getting hacky?

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