Package org.gradle.api.provider
Interface ProviderFactory
A factory for creating instances of
Provider
and PropertyState
.
An instance of the factory can be injected into a task or plugin by annotating a public constructor or method with javax.inject.Inject
.
public class MyTask extends DefaultTask { // injection into a constructor @javax.inject.Inject public MyTask(ProviderFactory providerFactory) { } // injection into a method @javax.inject.Inject public ProviderFactory getProviderFactory() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); } }
An instance of the factory is also available using Project.getProviders()
- Since:
- 4.0
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Method Summary
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Method Details
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provider
Creates aProvider
whose value is calculated using the givenCallable
.The provider is live and will call the
Callable
each time its value is queried. TheCallable
may returnnull
, in which case the provider is considered to have no value.- Parameters:
value
- Thejava.util.concurrent.Callable
use to calculate the value.- Returns:
- The provider. Never returns null.
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property
Deprecated.UseObjectFactory.property(Class)
instead.Creates aPropertyState
implementation to hold values of the given type.The property will have a value equal to the default value of that type as defined by the Java language specification. Please see Oracle's Java manual for more information.
Any other data type than the standard Java data types returns a property with no value defined.
- Parameters:
valueType
- The type of the property.- Returns:
- The property. Never returns null.
-
ObjectFactory.property(Class)
instead.