1 /*
2 * Copyright 2007-2008 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.core.config;
17
18 import java.io.IOException;
19 import java.util.Map;
20
21 /**
22 * ConfigParser interface, establishes the contract between the parser and consumers
23 * of config properties.
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 */
27 public interface ConfigParser {
28 /**
29 * Parses config file resources
30 * @param locations an array of file or classpath config resources
31 * @return a Properties object containing config parameters
32 */
33 public void parse(Map props, String[] locations) throws IOException;
34 }