Package org.apache.commons.configuration2.builder.combined

Interface ConfigurationBuilderProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseConfigurationBuilderProvider, CombinedConfigurationBuilderProvider, FileExtensionConfigurationBuilderProvider, MultiFileConfigurationBuilderProvider

public interface ConfigurationBuilderProvider

An interface for creating builders for configuration sources of a CombinedConfigurationBuilder.

When processing its definition file CombinedConfigurationBuilder scans for tags declaring configuration sources and maps them to implementations of this interface. The instances are then used to obtain builder objects to create the corresponding configuration sources. Parameters of the builders are provided as ConfigurationDeclaration objects.

Since:

2.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ConfigurationBuilder<? extends Configuration>	getConfigurationBuilder(ConfigurationDeclaration decl)	Gets the builder for the configuration source managed by this provider.

Method Details

getConfigurationBuilder

ConfigurationBuilder<? extends Configuration> getConfigurationBuilder(ConfigurationDeclaration decl)
                                                               throws ConfigurationException

Gets the builder for the configuration source managed by this provider. This method is called during processing of the combined configuration definition file.

Parameters:

decl - the bean declaration with initialization parameters for the configuration builder

Returns:

the ConfigurationBuilder object created by this provider

Throws:

ConfigurationException - if an error occurs