001// Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
002//
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014
015package org.apache.hivemind.service.impl;
016
017import org.apache.hivemind.Location;
018import org.apache.hivemind.internal.Module;
019import org.apache.hivemind.service.ObjectProvider;
020
021/**
022 * Implementation of {@link org.apache.hivemind.service.ObjectProvider} that interprets the locator
023 * as a class name and converts it to a Class object. The namemay be partial; it is interpreted
024 * using the contributing module's package name.  Mapped to the "class:" prefix.
025 * 
026 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
027 * @since 1.1
028 */
029public class ClassObjectProvider implements ObjectProvider
030{
031
032    public Object provideObject(Module contributingModule, Class propertyType, String locator,
033            Location location)
034    {
035        return contributingModule.resolveType(locator);
036    }
037
038}