NameResolverProvider.java

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package io.grpc;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Provider of name resolvers for name agnostic consumption.
 *
 * <p>Implementations can be automatically discovered by gRPC via Java's SPI mechanism. For
 * automatic discovery, the implementation must have a zero-argument constructor and include
 * a resource named {@code META-INF/services/io.grpc.NameResolverProvider} in their JAR. The
 * file's contents should be the implementation's class name. Implementations that need arguments in
 * their constructor can be manually registered by {@link NameResolverRegistry#register}.
 *
 * <p>Implementations <em>should not</em> throw. If they do, it may interrupt class loading. If
 * exceptions may reasonably occur for implementation-specific reasons, implementations should
 * generally handle the exception gracefully and return {@code false} from {@link #isAvailable()}.
 */
@ExperimentalApi("https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/4159")
public abstract class NameResolverProvider extends NameResolver.Factory {

  /**
   * The port number used in case the target or the underlying naming system doesn't provide a
   * port number.
   *
   * @since 1.0.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unused") // Avoids outside callers accidentally depending on the super class.
  @Deprecated
  public static final Attributes.Key<Integer> PARAMS_DEFAULT_PORT =
      NameResolver.Factory.PARAMS_DEFAULT_PORT;

  /**
   * Returns non-{@code null} ClassLoader-wide providers, in preference order.
   *
   * @since 1.0.0
   * @deprecated Has no replacement
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static List<NameResolverProvider> providers() {
    return NameResolverRegistry.getDefaultRegistry().providers();
  }

  /**
   * @since 1.0.0
   * @deprecated Use NameResolverRegistry.getDefaultRegistry().asFactory()
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static NameResolver.Factory asFactory() {
    return NameResolverRegistry.getDefaultRegistry().asFactory();
  }

  /**
   * Whether this provider is available for use, taking the current environment into consideration.
   * If {@code false}, no other methods are safe to be called.
   *
   * @since 1.0.0
   */
  protected abstract boolean isAvailable();

  /**
   * A priority, from 0 to 10 that this provider should be used, taking the current environment into
   * consideration. 5 should be considered the default, and then tweaked based on environment
   * detection. A priority of 0 does not imply that the provider wouldn't work; just that it should
   * be last in line.
   *
   * @since 1.0.0
   */
  protected abstract int priority();
}