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<pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">PropertyValueCombinationPolicy</span></pre>
<div class="block">Policy that determines how the final value of a configuration entry is evaluated. An instances of this
interface can be registered to get control how multiple PropertySources are combined. This is useful in cases
where the default overriding policy as implemented in <a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValueCombinationPolicy.html#DEFAULT_OVERRIDING_COLLECTOR"><code>DEFAULT_OVERRIDING_COLLECTOR</code></a> is not matching
the need of the current application, e.g. then entries containing multiple values should be combined to new
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static <a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValueCombinationPolicy.html" title="interface in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertyValueCombinationPolicy</a></code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValueCombinationPolicy.html#DEFAULT_OVERRIDING_COLLECTOR">DEFAULT_OVERRIDING_COLLECTOR</a></span></code>
<div class="block">Default overriding collector, where each existing entry (<code>current</code> is overridden by a subsequent non-null
entry evaluated by <code>propertySource.get(key)</code>.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValue.html" title="class in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertyValue</a></code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValueCombinationPolicy.html#collect-org.apache.tamaya.spi.PropertyValue-java.lang.String-org.apache.tamaya.spi.PropertySource-">collect</a></span>(<a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValue.html" title="class in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertyValue</a>&nbsp;currentValue,
<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a>&nbsp;key,
<a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertySource.html" title="interface in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertySource</a>&nbsp;propertySource)</code>
<div class="block">Method that is called for each value evaluated by a PropertySource for the given key.</div>
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<pre>static final&nbsp;<a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValueCombinationPolicy.html" title="interface in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertyValueCombinationPolicy</a> DEFAULT_OVERRIDING_COLLECTOR</pre>
<div class="block">Default overriding collector, where each existing entry (<code>current</code> is overridden by a subsequent non-null
entry evaluated by <code>propertySource.get(key)</code>.</div>
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<h4>collect</h4>
<pre><a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValue.html" title="class in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertyValue</a>&nbsp;collect(<a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertyValue.html" title="class in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertyValue</a>&nbsp;currentValue,
<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a>&nbsp;key,
<a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/spi/PropertySource.html" title="interface in org.apache.tamaya.spi">PropertySource</a>&nbsp;propertySource)</pre>
<div class="block">Method that is called for each value evaluated by a PropertySource for the given key. This method is called
either when a single key is accessed, e.g. by calling <code>org.apache.tamaya.Configuration.getXXX</code>, but also
when the full configuration property map is accessed by calling
<a href="../../../../org/apache/tamaya/Configuration.html#getProperties--"><code>Configuration.getProperties()</code></a>.</div>
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<dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
<dd><code>currentValue</code> - the current value, including metadata entries. If no such key is present the current value
is null.
The collector should either combine the existing value with value from <code>currentValue</code>
or replace the value in <code>currentValue</code> with <code>valueRead</code>, hereby returning the
result to be used as new <code>currentValue</code>.</dd>
<dd><code>key</code> - The current key to be evaluated.</dd>
<dd><code>propertySource</code> - The PropertySource that may return an value for the given key. The PropertySource given
may be evaluated for additional meta-data, how the given values are to be combined.
Note that the value returned by a PropertySource can be null. In that case
<code>currentValue</code> should be returned in almost all cases.</dd>
<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
<dd>the value to be used for future evaluation, including metadata entries.</dd>
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