Github user neykov commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/1017#discussion_r44542209
--- Diff:
api/src/main/java/org/apache/brooklyn/api/typereg/BrooklynTypeRegistry.java ---
@@ -45,24 +45,25 @@
/** @return The item matching the given given
* {@link RegisteredType#getSymbolicName() symbolicName}
* and optionally {@link RegisteredType#getVersion()},
- * filtered for the optionally supplied {@link
RegisteredTypeConstraint},
+ * filtered for the optionally supplied {@link
RegisteredTypeLoadingContext},
* taking the best version if the version is null or a default marker,
* returning null if no matches are found. */
- RegisteredType get(String symbolicName, String version, @Nullable
RegisteredTypeConstraint constraint);
- /** as {@link #get(String, String, RegisteredTypeConstraint)} with no
constraints */
+ RegisteredType get(String symbolicName, String version, @Nullable
RegisteredTypeLoadingContext constraint);
+ /** as {@link #get(String, String, RegisteredTypeLoadingContext)} with
no constraints */
RegisteredType get(String symbolicName, String version);
- /** as {@link #get(String, String, RegisteredTypeConstraint)} but
allows <code>"name:version"</code>
+ /** as {@link #get(String, String, RegisteredTypeLoadingContext)} but
allows <code>"name:version"</code>
* (the {@link RegisteredType#getId()}) in addition to the unversioned
name,
* using a default marker if no version can be inferred */
- RegisteredType get(String symbolicNameWithOptionalVersion, @Nullable
RegisteredTypeConstraint constraint);
- /** as {@link #get(String, RegisteredTypeConstraint)} but with no
constraints */
+ RegisteredType get(String symbolicNameWithOptionalVersion, @Nullable
RegisteredTypeLoadingContext constraint);
--- End diff --
It's not clear from the javadoc what does the `constraint` filter on `get`
methods. Do we allow conflicting types - for example a catalog item and a bean
with the same `symbolicName` where `version` is not enough of a discriminator?
* if yes, then shouldn't the return type be a collection for the case
where the `constraint
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