/* * Copyright 2016 The gRPC 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 io.grpc; import java.util.List; /** * Provider of name resolvers for name agnostic consumption. * *
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}. * *
Implementations should not 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