/* * Copyright 2018 The gRPC Authors * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package io.grpc; import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects; import io.grpc.NameResolver.ConfigOrError; import java.util.Map; /** * Provider of {@link LoadBalancer}s. Each provider is bounded to a load-balancing policy name. * *
Implementations can be automatically discovered by gRPC via Java's SPI mechanism. For * automatic discovery, the implementation must have a zero-argument constructor and include * a resource named {@code META-INF/services/io.grpc.LoadBalancerProvider} in their JAR. The * file's contents should be the implementation's class name. Implementations that need arguments in * their constructor can be manually registered by {@link LoadBalancerRegistry#register}. * *
Implementations should not throw. If they do, it may interrupt class loading. If * exceptions may reasonably occur for implementation-specific reasons, implementations should * generally handle the exception gracefully and return {@code false} from {@link #isAvailable()}. * * @since 1.17.0 */ @ExperimentalApi("https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/1771") public abstract class LoadBalancerProvider extends LoadBalancer.Factory { /** * A sentinel value indicating that service config is not supported. This can be used to * indicate that parsing of the service config is neither right nor wrong, but doesn't have * any meaning. */ private static final ConfigOrError UNKNOWN_CONFIG = ConfigOrError.fromConfig(new UnknownConfig()); /** * Whether this provider is available for use, taking the current environment into consideration. * If {@code false}, {@link #newLoadBalancer} is not safe to be called. */ public abstract boolean isAvailable(); /** * A priority, from 0 to 10 that this provider should be used, taking the current environment into * consideration. 5 should be considered the default, and then tweaked based on environment * detection. A priority of 0 does not imply that the provider wouldn't work; just that it should * be last in line. */ public abstract int getPriority(); /** * Returns the load-balancing policy name associated with this provider, which makes it selectable * via {@link LoadBalancerRegistry#getProvider}. This is called only when the class is loaded. It * shouldn't change, and there is no point doing so. * *
The policy name should consist of only lower case letters letters, underscore and digits,
* and can only start with letters.
*/
public abstract String getPolicyName();
/**
* Parses the config for the Load Balancing policy unpacked from the service config. This will
* return a {@link ConfigOrError} which contains either the successfully parsed config, or the
* {@link Status} representing the failure to parse. Implementations are expected to not throw
* exceptions but return a Status representing the failure. If successful, the load balancing
* policy config should be immutable.
*
* @param rawLoadBalancingPolicyConfig The {@link Map} representation of the load balancing
* policy choice.
* @return a tuple of the fully parsed and validated balancer configuration, else the Status.
* @since 1.20.0
* @see
* A24-lb-policy-config.md
*/
public ConfigOrError parseLoadBalancingPolicyConfig(Map