1 package org.apache.commons.digester3; 2 3 /* 4 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 5 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 6 * distributed with this work for additional information 7 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 8 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 9 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 10 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 * 12 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 * 14 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 15 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 16 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 17 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 18 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 19 * under the License. 20 */ 21 22 import org.xml.sax.Attributes; 23 24 /** 25 * Abstract base class for <code>ObjectCreationFactory</code> implementations. 26 * 27 * @param <T> The object type will be instantiate by this factory. 28 */ 29 public abstract class AbstractObjectCreationFactory<T> 30 implements ObjectCreationFactory<T> 31 { 32 33 // ----------------------------------------------------- Instance Variables 34 35 /** 36 * The associated <code>Digester</code> instance that was set up by {@link FactoryCreateRule} upon initialization. 37 */ 38 private Digester digester = null; 39 40 // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods 41 42 /** 43 * Factory method called by {@link FactoryCreateRule} to supply an object based on the element's attributes. 44 * 45 * @param attributes the element's attributes 46 * @return creates a new T instance 47 * @throws Exception any exception thrown will be propagated upwards 48 */ 49 public abstract T createObject( Attributes attributes ) 50 throws Exception; 51 52 /** 53 * {@inheritDoc} 54 */ 55 public Digester getDigester() 56 { 57 return ( this.digester ); 58 } 59 60 /** 61 * {@inheritDoc} 62 */ 63 public void setDigester( Digester digester ) 64 { 65 this.digester = digester; 66 } 67 68 }