A name is used to reference and lookup services and environment properties.
A name functions much like a domain namespace – it consists of a sequence of name parts delimited by a ‘.’ when encoded as a fully qualified string.
The name interface has a number of functions including:
- comparing a name with another name
- iterating over the name parts of a name
- returning the name prefix of a name
- returning the name part value of a name
- creating names that extend the name
Because names are created by a provider they can be initialized once and reused across multiple contexts and environments.