Class ConfigurationFactory

java.lang.Object
org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationFactory

Deprecated.
Use DefaultConfigurationBuilder instead; this class provides the same features as ConfigurationFactory plus some more; it can also process the same configuration definition files.

Factory class to create a CompositeConfiguration from a .xml file using Digester. By default it can handle the Configurations from commons- configuration. If you need to add your own, then you can pass in your own digester rules to use. It is also namespace aware, by providing a digesterRuleNamespaceURI.

Note: Almost all of the features provided by this class and many more are also available for the DefaultConfigurationBuilder class. DefaultConfigurationBuilder also has a more robust merge algorithm for constructing combined configurations. So it is recommended to use this class instead of ConfigurationFactory.

Version:
$Id: ConfigurationFactory.java 1209685 2011-12-02 20:47:44Z oheger $
Author:
Eric Pugh, Henning P. Schmiedehausen
  • Constructor Details

    • ConfigurationFactory

      Deprecated.
      Constructor
    • ConfigurationFactory

      public ConfigurationFactory(String configurationFileName)
      Deprecated.
      Constructor with ConfigurationFile Name passed
      Parameters:
      configurationFileName - The path to the configuration file
  • Method Details

    • getConfiguration

      Deprecated.
      Return the configuration provided by this factory. It loads the configuration file which is a XML description of the actual configurations to load. It can contain various different types of configuration, e.g. Properties, XML and JNDI.
      Returns:
      A Configuration object
      Throws:
      ConfigurationException - A generic exception that we had trouble during the loading of the configuration data.
    • getConfigurationFileName

      Deprecated.
      Returns the configurationFile.
      Returns:
      The name of the configuration file. Can be null.
    • setConfigurationFileName

      public void setConfigurationFileName(String configurationFileName)
      Deprecated.
      Sets the configurationFile.
      Parameters:
      configurationFileName - The name of the configurationFile to use.
    • getConfigurationURL

      Deprecated.
      Returns the URL of the configuration file to be loaded.
      Returns:
      the URL of the configuration to load
    • setConfigurationURL

      public void setConfigurationURL(URL url)
      Deprecated.
      Sets the URL of the configuration to load. This configuration can be either specified by a file name or by a URL.
      Parameters:
      url - the URL of the configuration to load
    • getDigesterRules

      Deprecated.
      Returns the digesterRules.
      Returns:
      URL
    • setDigesterRules

      public void setDigesterRules(URL digesterRules)
      Deprecated.
      Sets the digesterRules.
      Parameters:
      digesterRules - The digesterRules to set
    • enableDigesterSubstitutor

      protected void enableDigesterSubstitutor(org.apache.commons.digester.Digester digester)
      Deprecated.
      Adds a substitutor to interpolate system properties
      Parameters:
      digester - The digester to which we add the substitutor
    • initDefaultDigesterRules

      protected void initDefaultDigesterRules(org.apache.commons.digester.Digester digester)
      Deprecated.
      Initializes the parsing rules for the default digester This allows the Configuration Factory to understand the default types: Properties, XML and JNDI. Two special sections are introduced: <override> and <additional>.
      Parameters:
      digester - The digester to configure
    • initDigesterSectionRules

      protected void initDigesterSectionRules(org.apache.commons.digester.Digester digester, String matchString, boolean additional)
      Deprecated.
      Sets up digester rules for a specified section of the configuration info file.
      Parameters:
      digester - the current digester instance
      matchString - specifies the section
      additional - a flag if rules for the additional section are to be added
    • setupDigesterInstance

      protected void setupDigesterInstance(org.apache.commons.digester.Digester digester, String matchString, org.apache.commons.digester.ObjectCreationFactory factory, String method, boolean additional)
      Deprecated.
      Sets up digester rules for a configuration to be loaded.
      Parameters:
      digester - the current digester
      matchString - the pattern to match with this rule
      factory - an ObjectCreationFactory instance to use for creating new objects
      method - the name of a method to be called or null for none
      additional - a flag if rules for the additional section are to be added
    • setupUnionRules

      protected void setupUnionRules(org.apache.commons.digester.Digester digester, String matchString)
      Deprecated.
      Sets up rules for configurations in the additional section.
      Parameters:
      digester - the current digester
      matchString - the pattern to match with this rule
    • getDigesterRuleNamespaceURI

      Deprecated.
      Returns the digesterRuleNamespaceURI.
      Returns:
      A String with the digesterRuleNamespaceURI.
    • setDigesterRuleNamespaceURI

      public void setDigesterRuleNamespaceURI(String digesterRuleNamespaceURI)
      Deprecated.
      Sets the digesterRuleNamespaceURI.
      Parameters:
      digesterRuleNamespaceURI - The new digesterRuleNamespaceURI to use
    • getBasePath

      public String getBasePath()
      Deprecated.
      Returns the Base path from which this Configuration Factory operates. This is never null. If you set the BasePath to null, then a base path according to the configuration to load is returned.
      Returns:
      The base Path of this configuration factory.
    • setBasePath

      public void setBasePath(String basePath)
      Deprecated.
      Sets the basePath for all file references from this Configuration Factory. Normally a base path need not to be set because it is determined by the location of the configuration file to load. All relative pathes in this file are resolved relative to this file. Setting a base path makes sense if such relative pathes should be otherwise resolved, e.g. if the configuration file is loaded from the class path and all sub configurations it refers to are stored in a special config directory.
      Parameters:
      basePath - The new basePath to set.