FactoryIteratorProvider (Geotools modules 31-SNAPSHOT API)

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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

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	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.