Better lazy resolution by ctrueden · Pull Request #91 · scijava/scijava-common

Specifically, we test that lazy object resolution works in conjunction
with a call to getAll(), to ensure that pending objects get resolved.

The LazyObjects instance will definitely return a collection of objects
of type PT, not just Object. This distinction is important now that the
ObjectIndex is more selective about which pending objects it resolves.

This breaks backwards compatibility, so bumps the development snapshot
version to 3.0.0.

The rationale is to make it possible for the ObjectIndex to better
discriminate which objects should be resolved for a particular call to
ObjectIndex#get(Class). The current behavior is to resolve _all_ pending
objects with _any_ call to get(Class), which is generally suboptimal.

If a pending object will not be of a type compatible with the
requested type, then skip resolution of that pending object.

This improves performance of the get(Class) and getAll() methods in
cases where there are a large number of pending objects in the index.

It also helps to eliminate difficulties like those in issue #90.

This tests that the addLater method works in conjunction with calls to
get(Class). The logic is nontrivial because we only want to resolve
pending objects when the types are compatible with the requested one.

The filterInstances method should not alter the return type of the input
list. The purpose of that method is to potentially remove some elements
from the input list -- nothing more -- so it should still return a
List<PT>, not something else.

Instead of maintaining our own list of singletons, we should be using
the ObjectService.