org.apache.hivemind.internal
Interface ConfigurationPoint

All Superinterfaces:

ExtensionPoint, Locatable

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConfigurationPointImpl

public interface ConfigurationPoint
extends ExtensionPoint

An extension point that provides configuration data in the form of a list of elements.

Author:

Howard Lewis Ship

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getConfiguration() Returns the container that holds the configuration data.
ConfigurationPointDefinition	getConfigurationPointDefinition()
java.lang.Class	getConfigurationType()

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.hivemind.internal.ExtensionPoint

getErrorLog, getExtensionPointId, getLog, getModule, visibleToModule

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.hivemind.Locatable

getLocation

Method Detail

getConfiguration

java.lang.Object getConfiguration()

Returns the container that holds the configuration data. May return a proxy to the actual data (which is constructed only as needed), but user code shouldn't care about that.

getConfigurationType

java.lang.Class getConfigurationType()

Returns:

the type of the container that holds the configuration data

getConfigurationPointDefinition

ConfigurationPointDefinition getConfigurationPointDefinition()