Package org.openhab.core.thing.binding

Class ThingFactory

java.lang.Object

org.openhab.core.thing.binding.ThingFactory

@NonNullByDefault
public class ThingFactory
extends Object

ThingFactory helps to create thing based on a given ThingType .

Author:

Dennis Nobel - Initial contribution, added support for channel groups, Benedikt Niehues - fix for Bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=445137 considering default values, Thomas Höfer - added thing and thing type properties, Chris Jackson - Added properties, label, description

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ThingFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static @Nullable Thing	createThing(ThingUID thingUID, Configuration configuration, @Nullable Map<String,String> properties, @Nullable ThingUID bridgeUID, ThingTypeUID thingTypeUID, List<ThingHandlerFactory> thingHandlerFactories)
static Thing	createThing(ThingType thingType, ThingUID thingUID, Configuration configuration)	Creates a thing based on given thing type.
static Thing	createThing(ThingType thingType, ThingUID thingUID, Configuration configuration, @Nullable ThingUID bridgeUID)	Creates a thing based on a given thing type.
static Thing	createThing(ThingType thingType, ThingUID thingUID, Configuration configuration, @Nullable ThingUID bridgeUID, @Nullable ConfigDescriptionRegistry configDescriptionRegistry)	Creates a thing based on a given thing type.
static ThingUID	generateRandomThingUID(ThingTypeUID thingTypeUID)	Generates a random Thing UID for the given thingType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

ThingFactory

public ThingFactory()

Method Details

generateRandomThingUID

public static ThingUID generateRandomThingUID(ThingTypeUID thingTypeUID)

Generates a random Thing UID for the given thingType

Parameters:

thingTypeUID - thing type (must not be null)

Returns:

random Thing UID

createThing

public static Thing createThing(ThingType thingType,
 ThingUID thingUID,
 Configuration configuration,
 @Nullable ThingUID bridgeUID)

Creates a thing based on a given thing type.

Parameters:

thingType - thing type (must not be null)

thingUID - thindUID (must not be null)

configuration - (must not be null)

bridgeUID - (can be null)

Returns:

thing the thing

createThing

public static Thing createThing(ThingType thingType,
 ThingUID thingUID,
 Configuration configuration,
 @Nullable ThingUID bridgeUID,
 @Nullable ConfigDescriptionRegistry configDescriptionRegistry)

Creates a thing based on a given thing type. It also creates the default-configuration given in the configDescriptions if the configDescriptionRegistry is not null

Parameters:

thingType - (must not be null)

thingUID - (must not be null)

configuration - (must not be null)

bridgeUID - (can be null)

configDescriptionRegistry - (can be null)

Returns:

thing the thing

createThing

public static @Nullable Thing createThing(ThingUID thingUID,
 Configuration configuration,
 @Nullable Map<String,String> properties,
 @Nullable ThingUID bridgeUID,
 ThingTypeUID thingTypeUID,
 List<ThingHandlerFactory> thingHandlerFactories)

createThing

public static Thing createThing(ThingType thingType,
 ThingUID thingUID,
 Configuration configuration)

Creates a thing based on given thing type.

Parameters:

thingType - thing type (must not be null)

thingUID - thingUID (must not be null)

configuration - (must not be null)

Returns:

thing the thing