org.springframework.beans.factory.xml
Interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser

public interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser

Strategy interface for parsing XML bean definitions. Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.

Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold state in instance variables during the execution of the registerBeanDefinitions method, for example global settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.

Since:

18.12.2003

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setParserClass(java.lang.Class)

Method Summary

int	registerBeanDefinitions(BeanDefinitionReader reader, Document doc, Resource resource) Parse bean definitions from the given DOM document, and register them with the given bean factory.

Method Detail

registerBeanDefinitions

int registerBeanDefinitions(BeanDefinitionReader reader,
                            Document doc,
                            Resource resource)
                            throws BeanDefinitionStoreException

Parse bean definitions from the given DOM document, and register them with the given bean factory.

Parameters:

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.

doc - the DOM document

resource - descriptor of the original XML resource (useful for displaying parse errors)

Returns:

the number of bean definitions found

Throws:

BeanDefinitionStoreException - in case of parsing errors