org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi

Interface ConfigSourceProvider

public interface ConfigSourceProvider

A provider for configuration source instances.

Implementations of this interface may supply zero or more configuration source instances for a given application (as defined by the application's ClassLoader).

Instances of this interface will be discovered via the ServiceLoader mechanism and can be registered by providing a META-INF/services/org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSourceProvider resource which contains the fully qualified class name of the custom ConfigSourceProvider implementation.

Author:

Mark Struberg, Gerhard Petracek, Emily Jiang

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Iterable<ConfigSource>	getConfigSources(ClassLoader forClassLoader) Return the ConfigSource instances that are provided by this provider.

Method Detail

getConfigSources

Iterable<ConfigSource> getConfigSources(ClassLoader forClassLoader)

Return the ConfigSource instances that are provided by this provider. An empty Iterable may be returned if no sources are to be provided.

Parameters:

forClassLoader - the class loader which should be used for discovery and resource loading purposes

Returns:

the ConfigSource instances to register to the configuration