generate abstract method

String generate(PodDefinition definition, PodDefinitionRegistry registry)

Strategy interface for generating pod names for PodDefinitions.

Frameworks that manage pods or dependency injection containers can use this interface to determine the default name to assign to a pod definition if no explicit name is provided.

This abstraction decouples naming logic from the core registration mechanism, allowing different naming strategies to be plugged in (e.g., based on class names, annotations, metadata, or hashing).

Example

class SimpleNameGenerator implements PodNameGenerator {
  @override
  String generate(PodDefinition definition, PodDefinitionRegistry registry) {
    return definition.name.toLowerCase();
  }
}

void main() {
  final definition = PodDefinition('MyService', Class<MyService>());
  final registry = MyPodDefinitionRegistry();
  final generator = SimpleNameGenerator();
  print(generator.generate(definition, registry)); // Output: myservice
}

Generates a name for the given definition within the context of the provided registry.

Implementations can inspect the pod class, metadata, annotations, or even the registry state to determine the best unique name to assign.

Implementation

String generate(PodDefinition definition, PodDefinitionRegistry registry);