MethodAnnotatedTurbineBaseService.java

package org.apache.turbine.services;

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import org.apache.turbine.annotation.AnnotationProcessor;
import org.apache.turbine.util.TurbineException;

/**
 * <p>This class provides a <code>Service</code> implementation that
 * Services used in Turbine are required to extend. 
 * This class provides the ability to process field and method annotations {@link TurbineServices} in a Turbine service.
 * You could also enable scanning globally by annotating the class (service) with the annotation {@link TurbineServices}, 
 * then method annotation could be omitted, if the argument class is {@link TurbineServices} annotated.  
 * </p>
 *
 */
public abstract class MethodAnnotatedTurbineBaseService
        extends TurbineBaseService
{
    
    /**
     * Performs late initialization.
     *
     * If your class relies on early initialization, and the object it
     * expects was not received, you can use late initialization to
     * throw an exception and complain.
     *
     * @throws InitializationException if initialization of this
     * class was not successful.
     */
    @Override
    public void init() throws InitializationException
    {
        setInit(true);
        try {
            // if second parameter is true, we get into an endless loop if setInit is done last
            AnnotationProcessor.process(this, true);
        } catch (TurbineException e) {
            throw new InitializationException(e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }
}