org.springframework.jdbc.support
Interface DatabaseMetaDataCallback

public interface DatabaseMetaDataCallback

A callback interface used by the JdbcUtils class. Implementations of this interface perform the actual work of extracting database meta data, but don't need to worry about exception handling. SQLExceptions will be caught and handled correctly by the JdbcUtils class.

Author:

Thomas Risberg

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

processMetaData(java.sql.DatabaseMetaData dbmd) Implementations must implement this method to process the meta data passed in.

Method Detail

processMetaData

public java.lang.Object processMetaData(java.sql.DatabaseMetaData dbmd)
                                 throws java.sql.SQLException

Implementations must implement this method to process the meta data passed in. Exactly what the implementation chooses to do is up to it.

Parameters:

dbmd - the DatabaseMetaData to process

Throws:

java.sql.SQLException - if a SQLException is encountered getting column values (that is, there's no need to catch SQLException)