Package 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
    Description
    <T> Iterator<T>
    iterator(Class<T> category)
    Returns an iterator over all factories of the specified category.

  • Method Details

    • 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.