/******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006, 2010 VMware Inc.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* and Apache License v2.0 which accompanies this distribution.
* The Eclipse Public License is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html and the Apache License v2.0
* is available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php.
* You may elect to redistribute this code under either of these licenses.
*
* Contributors:
* VMware Inc.
*****************************************************************************/
package org.springframework.ide.eclipse.osgi.blueprint.internal.util;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder;
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
/**
* Wrapper callback used for parsing attributes (one at a time) that are non
* standard (ID, LAZY-INIT, DEPENDS-ON).
*
* @author Costin Leau
*/
public interface AttributeCallback {
/**
* Process the given attribute using the contextual element and bean
* builder. Normally, the callback will interact with the bean definition
* and set some properties.
* <p/>
* If the callback has intercepted an attribute, it can stop the invocation
* of the rest of the callbacks on the stack by returning false.
*
* @param parent
* parent element
* @param attribute
* current intercepted attribute
* @param builder
* builder holding the current bean definition
* @return true if the rest of the callbacks should be called or false
* otherwise.
*/
boolean process(Element parent, Attr attribute, BeanDefinitionBuilder builder);
}