package org.apache.commons.digester3.plugins;

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import org.apache.commons.digester3.Digester;
import org.apache.commons.digester3.Rules;

/**
 * Whenever the scope of a plugin tag is entered, the PluginRules class creates a new Rules instance and configures it
 * with the appropriate parsing rules for the plugged-in class.
 * <p>
 * Users of the plugins module can specify a subclass of this one to control the creation of that Rules object. In
 * particular, it can set up default rules within the returned instance which are applicable to all plugged-in classes.
 * 
 * @since 1.6
 */
public abstract class RulesFactory
{

    /**
     * Return an instance of some Rules implementation that the plugged-in class shall use to match its private parsing
     * rules.
     * <p>
     * 
     * @param d is the digester that the returned rules object will be associated with.
     * @param pluginClass is the class that is to be configured using rules added to the returned object.
     * @return an instance of some Rules implementation that the plugged-in class shall use to match its private parsing
     *         rules.
     * @throws PluginException if the algorithm finds a source of rules, but there is something invalid about that
     *             source.
     */
    public abstract Rules newRules( Digester d, Class<?> pluginClass )
        throws PluginException;

}