/** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you 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.metamodel.factory; import java.util.ServiceLoader; import org.apache.metamodel.ConnectionException; import org.apache.metamodel.DataContext; /** * Represents a factory of {@link DataContext} objects. Factories take * {@link DataContextProperties} and turn them into active {@link DataContext} * instances. * * Multiple factories can exist in order to serve different kinds of properties, * thereby offering a dynamic factory mechanism. The collection of factories is * accessible via {@link DataContextFactoryRegistry}. * * These factories are registered via the Java {@link ServiceLoader} SPI API. So * add a file with path * "/META-INF/services/org.apache.metamodel.factory.DataContextFactory" in any * JAR file in order to register another factory. */ public interface DataContextFactory { public boolean accepts(DataContextProperties properties, ResourceFactoryRegistry resourceFactoryRegistry); public DataContext create(DataContextProperties properties, ResourceFactoryRegistry resourceFactoryRegistry) throws UnsupportedDataContextPropertiesException, ConnectionException; }