- package org.apache.commons.betwixt.registry;
-
- /*
- * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
- import org.apache.commons.betwixt.XMLBeanInfo;
-
- /** <p>Plug in registry for <code>XMLBeanInfo</code>'s.</p>
- *
- * <p>This decouples the implementation of the <code>XMLBeanInfo</code> cache.
- * Users can plug in the standard implementations found
- * in this package to switch caching on and off.
- * Alternatively, they can plug-in an exotic cache of their own devising.</p>
- *
- * <p>Users can also prime a cache with <code>XMLBeanInfo</code>
- * classes created programmatically.</p>
- *
- * <p>To find a <code>XMLBeanInfo</code> for a class,
- * <code>XMLIntrospector</code> checks in the registry first
- * before starting introspection.
- * If the registry returns an <code>XMLBeanInfo</code>, then that's used.
- * Otherwise, the <code>XMLBeanInfo</code> will be found by standard introspection
- * and then {@link #put} will be called so that the registry
- * can cache - if it wished - the <code>XMLBeanInfo</code>.
- * </p>
- *
- * @author <a href="mailto:rdonkin@apache.org">Robert Burrell Donkin</a>
- * @version $Id: XMLBeanInfoRegistry.java,v 1.6 2004/02/28 13:38:34 yoavs Exp $
- */
- public interface XMLBeanInfoRegistry {
-
- /**
- * Get the <code>XMLBeanInfo</code> for the given class.
- *
- * @param forThisClass get <code>XMLBeanInfo</code> for this class
- *
- * @return <code>null</code> if fresh introspection should be used
- * to find the <code>XMLBeanInfo</code>
- */
- public XMLBeanInfo get(Class forThisClass);
-
- /**
- * Associate a class with it's <code>XMLBeanInfo</code>.
- *
- * @param forThisClass the class to associate with the given bean info
- * @param beanInfo the <code>XMLBeanInfo</code> to use for the given class
- */
- public void put(Class forThisClass, XMLBeanInfo beanInfo);
-
- /**
- * Flush or resets the current registry to it's original state.
- * It has to be implemented, however could be an empty implementation
- */
- public void flush();
- }