com.typesafe.config
Interface ConfigIncluder

public interface ConfigIncluder

Implement this interface and provide an instance to ConfigParseOptions.setIncluder() to customize handling of include statements in config files. You may also want to implement ConfigIncluderClasspath, ConfigIncluderFile, and ConfigIncluderURL, or not.

Method Summary

ConfigObject	include(ConfigIncludeContext context, java.lang.String what) Parses another item to be included.
ConfigIncluder	withFallback(ConfigIncluder fallback) Returns a new includer that falls back to the given includer.

Method Detail

withFallback

ConfigIncluder withFallback(ConfigIncluder fallback)

Returns a new includer that falls back to the given includer. This is how you can obtain the default includer; it will be provided as a fallback. It's up to your includer to chain to it if you want to. You might want to merge any files found by the fallback includer with any objects you load yourself. It's important to handle the case where you already have the fallback with a "return this", i.e. this method should not create a new object if the fallback is the same one you already have. The same fallback may be added repeatedly.

Parameters:

fallback -

Returns:

a new includer

include

ConfigObject include(ConfigIncludeContext context,
                     java.lang.String what)

Parses another item to be included. The returned object typically would not have substitutions resolved. You can throw a ConfigException here to abort parsing, or return an empty object, but may not return null. This method is used for a "heuristic" include statement that does not specify file, URL, or classpath resource. If the include statement does specify, then the same class implementing ConfigIncluder must also implement ConfigIncluderClasspath, ConfigIncluderFile, or ConfigIncluderURL as needed, or a default includer will be used.

Parameters:

context - some info about the include context

what - the include statement's argument

Returns:

a non-null ConfigObject