Spring Framework example source code file (PassThroughSourceExtractor.java)

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The Spring Framework PassThroughSourceExtractor.java source code

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package org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing;

import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;

/**
 * Simple {@link SourceExtractor} implementation that just passes
 * the candidate source metadata object through for attachment.
 *
 * <p>Using this implementation means that tools will get raw access to the
 * underlying configuration source metadata provided by the tool.
 *
 * <p>This implementation should not be used in a production
 * application since it is likely to keep too much metadata in memory
 * (unnecessarily).
 *
 * @author Rob Harrop
 * @since 2.0
 */
public class PassThroughSourceExtractor implements SourceExtractor {

	/**
	 * Simply returns the supplied <code>sourceCandidate as-is.
	 * @param sourceCandidate the source metadata
	 * @return the supplied <code>sourceCandidate
	 */
	public Object extractSource(Object sourceCandidate, Resource definingResource) {
		return sourceCandidate;
	}

}