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* $Id: SAXEntityReader.java 51317 2008-08-24 04:38:02Z csev@umich.edu $
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package org.sakaiproject.util;
import java.util.Map;
/**
*
* StorageUsers that can read using SAX should implement this interface.
* Unfortunately the parse.parse method requires a DefaultHandler which is a concrete class,
* so DefaultEntityHandler cant be an interface, and hence we need to extend. So the implementation
* has to be somewhere. To avoid forcing things that dont already depend on util-util to depend on
* util-util the interface is here rather than in db-util or elsewhere.
*
* @author ieb
*
*/
public interface SAXEntityReader
{
/**
* Get the Default Entity Handler.
* @return
*/
DefaultEntityHandler getDefaultHandler(Map<String, Object> services);
/**
* @return
*/
Map<String, Object> getServices();
}