Re: Mass update to components for Cocoon 2.2

[Geoff Howard]

Unico Hommes wrote:

Berin Loritsch wrote:

/**
 * This component depends on the following:
 *
 * @avalon.dependency type="Generator"
 * @avalon.dependency type="Transformer"
 * @avalon.dependency type="Serializer"
 */
public void service(ServiceManager manager) throws ServiceException
{
    manager.lookup(Generator.ROLE);
    manager.lookup(Transformer.ROLE);
    manager.lookup(Serializer.ROLE);
}
This allows Fortress to guarantee a proper shutdown order for the
components,
and to guarantee that there are no circular dependencies.  The type
parameter
is a class name (interface in this case) that can be resolved against
your
import statements.  The services your component uses should be
declared in
the
imports by default anyway.  If not, and you are proxying for another
component
that does the actual lookup, then you will have to add the fully
qualified
class name.



Ok, I am running into the following situation: Looking at
components.modules.input.AbstractMetaModule it defines that it is
Composable and assigns the component manager to a protected member
variable. A subclass, ChainMetaModule, uses the component manager to
lookup a dependency. This means ChainMetaModule should redefine the
compose()/ (->service()) method in order to declare its dependencies.
 
So, in order to avoid this I'd like to put the dependency tags above at
class declaration level instead of directly above the service() method.
Can I do this?
And while you're at it can you confirm whether or not tags are inherited 
by subclasses?

Geoff