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Hierarchy

• Object
  • GroovyObjectSupport
    • Binding
      • FactoryBuilderSupport
        • griffon.builder.UberBuilder
          • griffon.gui.GUIBuilder

The logic to support all of the non-specific builder magic will go into UberBuidlerUberBuilder. GUIBuilder will be an instance if UberBuilder with specific factories pre-loaded into the cache.

Constructor

The only consructor constructor will be

UberBuilder(Object[] builders) {
  builders.each {if (it) uberInit(it)}
}

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UberBuilder('ant', 'swing', 'DOM')
UberBuidlerUberBuilder(AntBuidlerAntBuilder, SwingBuilder, DOMBuilder)
UberBuilder(new AntBuidlerAntBuilder(), new SwingBuilder(), new DOMBuilder()

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First, there will be an internal registry mapping, mapping some object (usually strings) to the relevant registrations for the UberBuidlerUberBuilder. Hence the fallback case:

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We basically try to init again if we don't get a match, except we look at the internal registry cache to 'de-reference' the symbol. Usually a String, but there may be instances where we may want to intercept a class. (should we move the dereferenceing dereferencing to the constructor?)

String

This is always a de-reference. May We may not even need an uberInit method, except for clarity.

Class

If the class is assignable to FactoryBuilderSupport, we attempt to no-args construct it. If we are successfull successful we feed it to uberInit(FactoryBuilderSupport), if not we feed it to uberInit(Object) before failing.

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1. We can wrap the builder's nodes using withBuilder and re-direct them into the proxy
2. We can take all of the registerd registered factories and stuff them into this UberBuilder.

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