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package org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer;

import org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.structure.VFSDeploymentUnit;
import org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile;
import org.jboss.xb.binding.ObjectModelFactory;

/**
 * ObjectModelFactoryDeployer extends the AbstractParsingDeployer to add an
 * abstract JBossXB ObjectModelFactory accessor that is used from within an
 * overriden parse(DeploymentUnit unit, VirtualFile file) to unmarshall the xml
 * document represented by file into an instance of deploymentType T.
 * 
 * @param <T> the expected type 
 * @author <a href="adrian@jboss.com">Adrian Brock</a>
 * @author Scott.Stark@jboss.org
 * @author <a href="ales.justin@jboss.com">Ales Justin</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $
 */
public abstract class ObjectModelFactoryDeployer<T> extends JBossXBDeployer<T>
{
   /**
    * Create a new SchemaResolverDeployer.
    * 
    * @param output the output
    * @throws IllegalArgumentException for a null output
    */
   public ObjectModelFactoryDeployer(Class<T> output)
   {
      super(output);
   }

   @Override
   protected T parse(VFSDeploymentUnit unit, VirtualFile file, T root) throws Exception
   {
      return getHelper().parse(file, root, getObjectModelFactory(root));
   }

   /**
    * Get the object model factory 
    * 
    * @param root - possibly null pre-existing root
    * @return the object model factory
    */
   protected abstract ObjectModelFactory getObjectModelFactory(T root);
}