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<h1 id="using-a-factory-method-to-create-pojo-object">Using a factory method to create POJO object<a class="headerlink" href="#using-a-factory-method-to-create-pojo-object" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h1>
<p><em>By default, iPOJO calls the POJO constructor to create objects. This constructor can either has no argument or receive the bundle context. However sometimes, you may want a more sophisticated object creation policy.</em></p>
<p>iPOJO allows you describing a factory method called to create POJO objects instead of the constructor. So, every time that iPOJO needs to create an instance of your POJO class, this method will be called to obtain the object.</p>
<p>To use this feature you need to add the <code>factory-method</code> attribute in the Component element as illustrated below:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="nt">&lt;component</span> <span class="na">className=</span><span class="s">&quot;org.apache.felix.ipojo.test.scenarios.component.FooProvider&quot;</span>
<span class="na">factory-method=</span><span class="s">&quot;createProvider&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
...
<span class="nt">&lt;/component&gt;</span>
</pre></div>
<p>The specified method must be a <em>static</em> method of the implementation class returning an <em>instance of this implementation class</em>. The following code shows an example of usage:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">FooProvider</span> <span class="nf">createProvider</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">singleton</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="kc">null</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="n">singleton</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">FooProvider</span><span class="o">();</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">singleton</span><span class="o">;</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
</pre></div>
<p>This method must then call any valid constructor (potentially private) of the implementation class. </p>
<p>However, be aware that if you create an instance by using a <code>factory-method</code>, the called constructor hasn't access to values injected by the iPOJO container. So, the called constructor must not try accessing to services, properties... These objects will be accessible when the constructor returns.</p>
<p>As for "normal" constructor, the method-factory can receive the bundle context in argument, such as in:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">FooProvider</span> <span class="nf">createProvider</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">BundleContext</span> <span class="n">bc</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">singleton</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="kc">null</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="n">singleton</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">FooProvider</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">bc</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">singleton</span><span class="o">;</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
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