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package org.apache.accumulo.core.spi.common;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

/**
 * The ClassLoaderFactory is defined by the property general.context.factory. The factory
 * implementation is configured externally to Accumulo and will return a ClassLoader for a given
 * contextName.
 *
 */
public interface ClassLoaderFactory {

  static class ClassLoaderFactoryConfiguration {

    public Iterator<Entry<String,String>> get() {
      return Collections.emptyIterator();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Initialize the ClassLoaderFactory. Implementations may need a reference to the configuration so
   * that it can clean up contexts that are no longer being used.
   *
   * @param conf
   *          Accumulo configuration properties
   * @throws Exception
   *           if error initializing ClassLoaderFactory
   */
  void initialize(ClassLoaderFactoryConfiguration conf) throws Exception;

  /**
   *
   * @param contextName
   *          name of classloader context
   * @return classloader configured for the context
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException
   *           if contextName is not supported
   */
  ClassLoader getClassLoader(String contextName) throws IllegalArgumentException;

}