IActualValueProvider (EASy-Producer Documentation API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActualValueReflectionTypeDescriptor, ClassFileArtifact, FileArtifact, FolderArtifact, IvmlProjectTypeDescriptor, JavaFileArtifact, VtlFileArtifact, XmlFileArtifact
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public interface IActualValueProvider
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VIL types implementing this interface may provide a more actual value of an object, e.g., during value assignment in the RuntimeEnvironment.
Default types implementing this interface shall not use their attributes as this method will be called via a template object and, thus, must implement a (not-necessarily accessible) no-argument constructor.

Author:

Holger Eichelberger

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.Object`	`determineActualValue(java.lang.Object object)`	Determines a more actual value for `object` in the context of using it for this type.

- Method Detail
  - determineActualValue
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java.lang.Object determineActualValue(java.lang.Object object)
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    Determines a more actual value for object in the context of using it for this type. Default types implementing this interface shall not use their attributes as this method will be called via a template object.
    
    Parameters:
    
    object - the initial object (may be null)
    
    Returns:
    
    the actual object (may be object if no actual value is available, may be null if object was null)