/* $Id: AbstractObjectCreationFactory.java,v 1.12 2004/05/10 06:30:06 skitching Exp $
 *
 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 * 
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package org.apache.commons.digester;


import org.xml.sax.Attributes;


/**
 * <p>Abstract base class for <code>ObjectCreationFactory</code>
 * implementations.</p>
 */
abstract public class AbstractObjectCreationFactory implements ObjectCreationFactory {


    // ----------------------------------------------------- Instance Variables


    /**
     * The associated <code>Digester</code> instance that was set up by
     * {@link FactoryCreateRule} upon initialization.
     */
    protected Digester digester = null;


    // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods


    /**
     * <p>Factory method called by {@link FactoryCreateRule} to supply an
     * object based on the element's attributes.
     *
     * @param attributes the element's attributes
     *
     * @throws Exception any exception thrown will be propagated upwards
     */
    public abstract Object createObject(Attributes attributes) throws Exception;


    /**
     * <p>Returns the {@link Digester} that was set by the
     * {@link FactoryCreateRule} upon initialization.
     */
    public Digester getDigester() {

        return (this.digester);

    }


    /**
     * <p>Set the {@link Digester} to allow the implementation to do logging,
     * classloading based on the digester's classloader, etc.
     *
     * @param digester parent Digester object
     */
    public void setDigester(Digester digester) {

        this.digester = digester;

    }


}