From f2718bed94818bdd049cf6174a3b1f58682b72e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89tienne=20L=C3=A9vesque?= <elevesque@nexapp.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:27:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Add a ReferenceNumberGenerator overload that can
 instantiate any ReferenceNumber implementation

---
 README.md                                            |  2 +-
 pom.xml                                              |  2 +-
 .../core/referables/ReferenceNumberGenerator.java    |  5 ++++-
 .../referables/UUIDReferenceNumberGenerator.java     | 12 ++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 10c9621..7244edf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Then, you simply add the dependency as follows:
 <dependency>
 	<groupId>ca.nexapp</groupId>
 	<artifactId>core</artifactId>
-	<version>0.1.4</version>
+	<version>0.2.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b9be3c3..80e1707 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <groupId>ca.nexapp</groupId>
     <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-    <version>0.1.4</version>
+    <version>0.2.0</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>Nexapp Core</name>
diff --git a/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/ReferenceNumberGenerator.java b/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/ReferenceNumberGenerator.java
index b2792cf..2306e0e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/ReferenceNumberGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/ReferenceNumberGenerator.java
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 package ca.nexapp.core.referables;
 
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+
 public interface ReferenceNumberGenerator {
 
-    ReferenceNumber generate();
+    ReferenceNumber generate() throws InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException;
 
+    <T extends ReferenceNumber> T generate(Class<T> klass) throws NoSuchMethodException, InvocationTargetException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException;
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/UUIDReferenceNumberGenerator.java b/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/UUIDReferenceNumberGenerator.java
index 3d030d3..4cec72f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/UUIDReferenceNumberGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ca/nexapp/core/referables/UUIDReferenceNumberGenerator.java
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 package ca.nexapp.core.referables;
 
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.util.UUID;
 
 public class UUIDReferenceNumberGenerator implements ReferenceNumberGenerator {
 
     @Override
-    public ReferenceNumber generate() {
-        return new ReferenceNumber(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
+    public ReferenceNumber generate() throws InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException {
+        return generate(ReferenceNumber.class);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T extends ReferenceNumber> T generate(Class<T> klass) throws NoSuchMethodException, InvocationTargetException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException {
+        Constructor<T> constructor = klass.getConstructor(String.class);
+        return constructor.newInstance(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
     }
 }