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package org.springframework.web.context.support;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean;
import org.springframework.web.context.ServletContextAware;

/**
 * Simple FactoryBean that exposes the ServletContext for bean references.
 * Can be used as alternative to implementing the ServletContextAware
 * callback interface. Allows for passing the ServletContext reference
 * to a constructor argument or any custom bean property.
 *
 * <p>Note that there's a special FactoryBean for exposing a specific
 * ServletContext attribute, named ServletContextAttributeFactoryBean.
 * So if all you need from the ServletContext is access to a specific
 * attribute, ServletContextAttributeFactoryBean allows you to expose
 * a constructor argument or bean property of the attribute type,
 * which is a preferable to a dependency on the full ServletContext.
 *
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 1.1.4
 * @see javax.servlet.ServletContext
 * @see org.springframework.web.context.ServletContextAware
 * @see ServletContextAttributeFactoryBean
 */
public class ServletContextFactoryBean implements FactoryBean, ServletContextAware {

	private ServletContext servletContext;


	public void setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext) {
		this.servletContext = servletContext;
	}


	public Object getObject() {
		return this.servletContext;
	}

	public Class getObjectType() {
		return (this.servletContext != null ? this.servletContext.getClass() : ServletContext.class);
	}

	public boolean isSingleton() {
		return true;
	}

}