com.facebook.buck.core.rules.providers

Interface Provider<T extends ProviderInfo<T>>

All Superinterfaces:

com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkinterface.SkylarkPrintable, com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkinterface.SkylarkValue

All Known Implementing Classes:

BuiltInProvider, UserDefinedProvider

public interface Provider<T extends ProviderInfo<T>>
extends com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkinterface.SkylarkValue

Declared Provider (a constructor for ProviderInfo).

Provider serves both as "type identifier" for declared provider instances and as a function that can be called to construct an info of a provider. To the Skylark user, there are "providers" and "provider infos"; the former is a Java instance of this class, and the latter is a Java instance of ProviderInfo.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static interface	Provider.Key<T> A serializable unique identifier of a Provider.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Provider.Key<T>	getKey() Returns a serializable representation of this Provider.
String	toString() Returns a name of this Provider that should be used in error messages.

Methods inherited from interface com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkinterface.SkylarkValue

isHashable, isImmutable

Methods inherited from interface com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkinterface.SkylarkPrintable

debugPrint, repr, str

Method Detail

getKey

Provider.Key<T> getKey()

Returns a serializable representation of this Provider.

toString

String toString()

Returns a name of this Provider that should be used in error messages.

Overrides:

toString in class Object