com.intellij.openapi.components
Interface ComponentManager

All Superinterfaces:

UserDataHolder

All Known Subinterfaces:

Application, Module, Project

public interface ComponentManager
extends UserDataHolder

Provides access to components. Servers as a base interface for Application and Project.

See Also:

ApplicationComponent, ProjectComponent, Application, Project

Method Summary

<T> T	getComponent(java.lang.Class<T> interfaceClass) Gets the component by its interface class.
<T> T	getComponent(java.lang.Class<T> interfaceClass, T defaultImplementationIfAbsent) Gets the component by its interface class but returns a specified default implementation if the actualt component doesn't exist in the container.
BaseComponent	getComponent(java.lang.String name) Gets the component by its name
java.lang.Class[]	getComponentInterfaces() Gets interface classes for all available components.
<T> T[]	getComponents(java.lang.Class<T> baseInterfaceClass) Gets all components whose interface class is derived from baseInterfaceClass.
org.picocontainer.PicoContainer	getPicoContainer()
boolean	hasComponent(java.lang.Class interfaceClass) Checks whether there is a component with the specified interface class.

Methods inherited from interface com.intellij.openapi.util.UserDataHolder

getUserData, putUserData

Method Detail

getComponent

BaseComponent getComponent(java.lang.String name)

Gets the component by its name

Parameters:

name - the name of the component

Returns:

component that matches interface class or null if there is no such component

getComponent

<T> T getComponent(java.lang.Class<T> interfaceClass)

Gets the component by its interface class.

Parameters:

interfaceClass - the interface class of the component

Returns:

component that matches interface class or null if there is no such component

getComponent

<T> T getComponent(java.lang.Class<T> interfaceClass,
                   T defaultImplementationIfAbsent)

Gets the component by its interface class but returns a specified default implementation if the actualt component doesn't exist in the container.

Parameters:

interfaceClass - the interface class of the component

defaultImplementationIfAbsent - the default implementation

Returns:

component that matches interface class or default if there is no such component

getComponentInterfaces

java.lang.Class[] getComponentInterfaces()

Gets interface classes for all available components.

Returns:

array of interface classes

hasComponent

boolean hasComponent(java.lang.Class interfaceClass)

Checks whether there is a component with the specified interface class.

Parameters:

interfaceClass - interface class of component to be checked

Returns:

true if there is a component with the specified interface class; false otherwise

getComponents

<T> T[] getComponents(java.lang.Class<T> baseInterfaceClass)

Gets all components whose interface class is derived from baseInterfaceClass.

Parameters:

baseInterfaceClass - base class

Returns:

array of components

getPicoContainer

org.picocontainer.PicoContainer getPicoContainer()