GroupCaller

GroupCaller is a lightweight annotation processor that solves a simple task: calling methods that aren't in a specific point in your application.
Sometimes you need some kind of initialization where a lot of methods need to be called, with the GroupCaller annotations you are able to define a list of methods to call without defining a method list.

How to use

You can add methods to the call list by using the @GroupCall annotation and putting the group name in it

class SomeSparseClass {
    @GroupCall("init")// Subscribe this method to the init list
    public static void initializeStrangeThing() {
        foobar();
    }
}

class AnotherClass {
    @GroupCall("init")// Subscribe this method too
    public static void initializeSomethingElse() {
        barfoo();
    }
}

When you want to call the methods just use @GroupCaller with the same group name to generate the caller class. Then use it by calling the static method CallerClass.call(); (the default name is the groupname + Caller)

@GroupCaller("init")// Create the class InitCaller in the same package
class Main {
    protected void initProgram() {
        InitCaller.call();
    }
}

Note: You can set the subscriber priority with @GroupCall(value = "groupname", prioriy = 50) Note: You can change the caller class name with @GroupCaller(value = "groupname", clazz = "OtherClass")

How to include (Gradle)

plugins {
    id "maven"
    // Then select one of the following
    id "net.ltgt.apt-idea" version "0.14"    // For intellij
    id "net.ltgt.apt-eclipse" version "0.14" // For eclipse
    id "net.ltgt.apt" version "0.14"         // With no IDE
}

dependencies {
    compileOnly group: 'xyz.upperlevel.groupcaller', name: 'groupcaller', version: '1.0'
    annotationProcessor group: 'xyz.upperlevel.groupcaller', name: 'groupcaller', version: '1.0'
}