52. Developer Documentation

This appendix provides generic information for a developers who may want to contribute or other people who want to understand how state machine works or what are its internal concepts.

52.1 StateMachine Config Model

StateMachineModel and other related SPI classes are an abstraction between various configuration and factory classes. This also allows easier integration for others to build state machines.

As shown above a state machine can be instantiated by building a model using configuration data classes and then asking a factory to build a state machine.

// setup configuration data
ConfigurationData<String, String> configurationData = new ConfigurationData<>();

// setup states data
Collection<StateData<String, String>> stateData = new ArrayList<>();
stateData.add(new StateData<String, String>("S1", true));
stateData.add(new StateData<String, String>("S2"));
StatesData<String, String> statesData = new StatesData<>(stateData);

// setup transitions data
Collection<TransitionData<String, String>> transitionData = new ArrayList<>();
transitionData.add(new TransitionData<String, String>("S1", "S2", "E1"));
TransitionsData<String, String> transitionsData = new TransitionsData<>(transitionData);

// setup model
StateMachineModel<String, String> stateMachineModel = new DefaultStateMachineModel<>(configurationData, statesData,
        transitionsData);

// instantiate machine via factory
ObjectStateMachineFactory<String, String> factory = new ObjectStateMachineFactory<>(stateMachineModel);
StateMachine<String, String> stateMachine = factory.getStateMachine();