Add javax.portlet.faces.BridgeFactoryFinder to the Bridge API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: facesbridge-api-5.0.0, facesbridge-spec-5.0.0
• Component/s: FacesBridge API, FacesBridge Spec
• Labels: None

This task includes adding a new javax.portlet.faces.BridgeFactoryFinder class modeled after the javax.faces.FactoryFinder feature in the JSF API. However, unlike the JSF FactoryFinder, the BridgeFactoryFinder should take advantage of Java SE 5 Generics and should be able to find any factory defined with the bridge: namespace in the <factory-extension> section of a faces-config.xml descriptor. For example:

<faces-config version="2.2" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_2.xsd"
	xmlns:bridge="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/bridge-5.0-extension">

	<factory>
		<factory-extension>
			<bridge:bridge-context-factory>com.liferay.faces.bridge.context.internal.BridgeContextFactoryImpl</bridge:bridge-context-factory>
		</factory-extension>
	</factory>
</faces-config>

Here is the proposed API:

public abstract class BridgeFactoryFinder {

	public static Object getFactory(PortletContext portletContext, Class<?> clazz) {
		return getInstance().getFactoryInstance(portletContext, clazz);
	}
}

Example Usage:

BridgeContextFactory bridgeContextFactory = (BridgeContextFactory) BridgeFactoryFinder.getFactory(portletContext, BridgeContext.class);