org.apache.james.container.spring.lifecycle

Interface ConfigurationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConfigurationProviderImpl, OSGIConfigurationProvider

public interface ConfigurationProvider

Load HierarchicalConfiguration for beans

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalConfiguration	getConfiguration(String beanName) Load and return the configuration for the bean with the given name.
void	registerConfiguration(String beanName, org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalConfiguration conf) Register a HierarchicalConfiguration for a bean name. It is not mandatory to use the registerConfiguration to have the configuration available as the getConfiguration(String) method may load it based on conventions (naming,...).

Method Detail

registerConfiguration

void registerConfiguration(String beanName,
                         org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalConfiguration conf)

Register a HierarchicalConfiguration for a bean name.
It is not mandatory to use the registerConfiguration to have the configuration available as the getConfiguration(String) method may load it based on conventions (naming,...).

Parameters:

beanName - The bean name for which the configuration has to be registered.

conf - The hierarchical configuration to register for the bean name.

getConfiguration

org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalConfiguration getConfiguration(String beanName)
                                                                            throws org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException

Load and return the configuration for the bean with the given name. The configuration may already be loaded from a previous method invocation or from a previous configuration registration via the registerConfiguration(String, HierarchicalConfiguration).
This method may implement convention based configuration loading based on naming,...

Parameters:

beanName -

Returns:

config

Throws:

org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException