org.geotools.util.factory

Interface FactoryIteratorProvider

public interface FactoryIteratorProvider

Provides iterators over factories of specified categories. Users shall register an implementation of this interface when the default lookup mechanism (namely scanning the content of the META-INF/services/ category file in every JARs found on the classpath) can not work. Such need may appear in the context of class loaders restricting access to non-package directories as META-INF. This constraint occurs on the Eclipse platform for instance.

Since:

2.4

Author:

Martin Desruisseaux

See Also:

FactoryRegistry#addFactoryIteratorProvider, CommonFactory#addFactoryIteratorProvider

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T> Iterator<T>	iterator(Class<T> category) Returns an iterator over all factories of the specified category.

Method Detail

iterator

<T> Iterator<T> iterator(Class<T> category)

Returns an iterator over all factories of the specified category. The category argument should be the interface class to be implemented, not the actual implementation.

Parameters:

category - The category for the factories to be returned.

Returns:

Factories that implement the specified category.