- /* $Id: AbstractObjectCreationFactory.java,v 1.12 2004/05/10 06:30:06 skitching Exp $
- *
- * 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.
- */
- package org.apache.commons.digester;
-
-
- import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
-
-
- /**
- * <p>Abstract base class for <code>ObjectCreationFactory</code>
- * implementations.</p>
- */
- abstract public class AbstractObjectCreationFactory implements ObjectCreationFactory {
-
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------- Instance Variables
-
-
- /**
- * The associated <code>Digester</code> instance that was set up by
- * {@link FactoryCreateRule} upon initialization.
- */
- protected Digester digester = null;
-
-
- // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods
-
-
- /**
- * <p>Factory method called by {@link FactoryCreateRule} to supply an
- * object based on the element's attributes.
- *
- * @param attributes the element's attributes
- *
- * @throws Exception any exception thrown will be propagated upwards
- */
- public abstract Object createObject(Attributes attributes) throws Exception;
-
-
- /**
- * <p>Returns the {@link Digester} that was set by the
- * {@link FactoryCreateRule} upon initialization.
- */
- public Digester getDigester() {
-
- return (this.digester);
-
- }
-
-
- /**
- * <p>Set the {@link Digester} to allow the implementation to do logging,
- * classloading based on the digester's classloader, etc.
- *
- * @param digester parent Digester object
- */
- public void setDigester(Digester digester) {
-
- this.digester = digester;
-
- }
-
-
- }