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package org.apache.commons.configuration2.builder.combined;

import org.apache.commons.configuration2.Configuration;
import org.apache.commons.configuration2.builder.ConfigurationBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.configuration2.ex.ConfigurationException;

/**
 * 
 * An interface for creating builders for configuration sources of a {@link CombinedConfigurationBuilder}.
 * 
 * 
 * When processing its definition file {@code CombinedConfigurationBuilder} scans for tags declaring configuration
 * sources and maps them to implementations of this interface. The instances are then used to obtain builder objects to
 * create the corresponding configuration sources. Parameters of the builders are provided as
 * {@link ConfigurationDeclaration} objects.
 * 
 *
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface ConfigurationBuilderProvider {
    /**
     * Gets the builder for the configuration source managed by this provider. This method is called during processing of
     * the combined configuration definition file.
     *
     * @param decl the bean declaration with initialization parameters for the configuration builder
     * @return the {@code ConfigurationBuilder} object created by this provider
     * @throws ConfigurationException if an error occurs
     */
    ConfigurationBuilder getConfigurationBuilder(ConfigurationDeclaration decl) throws ConfigurationException;
}