LocatorLauncher provides an API which can be used in-process to create a Locator. There is no public API on that class to get a reference to the Locator or its Cache.
Similarly, ServerLauncher provides an API which can be used in-process to create a Server, but there is no public API in that class to get a reference to its Cache. The User of either Launcher would then have to resort to invoking singletons to get a reference to the Cache. There are existing package-private getter APIs on both Launchers but they're only used by tests in that same package. I propose adding public APIs for getCache to both LocatorLauncher and ServerLauncher as well as adding getLocator to LocatorLauncher. The signatures would look like: /** * Gets a reference to the Cache that was created by this ServerLauncher. * * @return a reference to the Cache */ public org.apache.geode.cache.Cache getCache(); /** * Gets a reference to the Locator that was created by this LocatorLauncher. * * @return a reference to the Locator */ public org.apache.geode.distributed.Locator getLocator(); Any thoughts? Yay or nay? Thanks, Kirk
