Feature (Jackrabbit Oak 1.70.0 API)

java.lang.Object
- org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.toggle.Feature

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, AutoCloseable
```
public final class Feature
extends Object
implements Closeable
```
A feature toggle to control new functionality. The default state of a feature is false and can be controlled by third party code discovering FeatureToggles on the Whiteboard. Every feature is linked to a feature toggle and allows to control the state of the feature toggle via FeatureToggle.setEnabled(boolean). Creating a new feature involves registering a feature toggle on the Whiteboard and potentially comes with some overhead (e.g. when the whiteboard is based on OSGi). Therefore, client code should not create a new feature, check the state and then immediately release/close it again. Instead a feature should be acquired initially, checked at runtime whenever needed and finally released when the client component is destroyed.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`close()`	Releases resources for this feature toggle.
`boolean`	`isEnabled()`
`static Feature`	`newFeature(String name, Whiteboard whiteboard)`	Creates a new `Feature` with the given name and registers the corresponding `FeatureToggle` on the `Whiteboard`.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Method Detail
  - newFeature
```
public static Feature newFeature(String name,
                                 Whiteboard whiteboard)
```
    Creates a new Feature with the given name and registers the corresponding FeatureToggle on the Whiteboard. Client code must call close() when the toggle is not used anymore.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name of the feature toggle.
    
    whiteboard - the whiteboard where to register the feature toggle.
    
    Returns:
    
    the feature toggle.
  - isEnabled
```
public boolean isEnabled()
```
    Returns:
    
    the current state of this feature.
  - close
```
public void close()
```
    Releases resources for this feature toggle.
    
    Specified by:
    
    close in interface AutoCloseable
    
    Specified by:
    
    close in interface Closeable