Interface Provider

All Known Implementing Classes:
DocumentProvider, PullProvider, StreamProvider

interface Provider
The Provider object is used to represent the provider of an XML parser. All XML parsers are represented as an event reader much like the StAX event reader. Providing a interface to the parser in this manner ensures that the core framework is not coupled to any specific implementation and also ensures that it should run in multiple environments that may support specific XML parsers.
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  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    This provides an EventReader that will read from the specified input stream.
    provide(Reader source)
    This provides an EventReader that will read from the specified reader.
  • Method Details

    • provide

      EventReader provide(InputStream source) throws Exception
      This provides an EventReader that will read from the specified input stream. When reading from an input stream the character encoding should be taken from the XML prolog or it should default to the UTF-8 character encoding.
      Parameters:
      source - this is the stream to read the document with
      Returns:
      this is used to return the event reader implementation
      Throws:
      Exception
    • provide

      EventReader provide(Reader source) throws Exception
      This provides an EventReader that will read from the specified reader. When reading from a reader the character encoding should be the same as the source XML document.
      Parameters:
      source - this is the reader to read the document with
      Returns:
      this is used to return the event reader implementation
      Throws:
      Exception