com.lightbend.cinnamon.event

Class EventBackend

java.lang.Object

com.lightbend.cinnamon.event.EventBackend

public abstract class EventBackend
extends java.lang.Object

EventBackend abstraction to create events for instrumented entities.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static EventBackend	NONE Empty no-op EventBackend.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EventBackend()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract EventFactory	eventsFor(Identity identity) Create an EventFactory for an instrumented entity with the given Identity.
boolean	usesIdentity() Override and set to false if the event backend doesn't use the identity.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NONE

public static final EventBackend NONE

Empty no-op EventBackend.

Constructor Detail

EventBackend

public EventBackend()

Method Detail

eventsFor

public abstract EventFactory eventsFor(Identity identity)

Create an EventFactory for an instrumented entity with the given Identity.

Parameters:

identity - identity of instrumented event

Returns:

event factory for the instrumented entity

usesIdentity

public boolean usesIdentity()

Override and set to false if the event backend doesn't use the identity. This will avoid creating multiple events for multiple identities.

Returns:

whether this event backend uses the identity