Spring Framework example source code file (XmlBeanDefinitionParser.java)

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The Spring Framework XmlBeanDefinitionParser.java source code

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package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReader;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;

/**
 * Strategy interface for parsing XML bean definitions.
 * Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.
 *
 * <p>Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold
 * state in instance variables during the execution of the
 * <code>registerBeanDefinitions method, for example global
 * settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.
 *
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 18.12.2003
 * @deprecated as of Spring 2.0: superseded by BeanDefinitionDocumentReader
 * @see BeanDefinitionDocumentReader
 * @see XmlBeanDefinitionReader#setParserClass
 */
public interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser {

	/**
	 * Parse bean definitions from the given DOM document,
	 * and register them with the given bean factory.
	 * @param reader the bean definition reader, containing the bean factory
	 * to work on and the bean class loader to use. Can also be used to load
	 * further bean definition files referenced by the given document.
	 * @param doc the DOM document
	 * @param resource descriptor of the original XML resource
	 * (useful for displaying parse errors)
	 * @return the number of bean definitions found
	 * @throws BeanDefinitionStoreException in case of parsing errors
	 */
	int registerBeanDefinitions(BeanDefinitionReader reader, Document doc, Resource resource)
			throws BeanDefinitionStoreException;

}