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 *   2009       - Mark Struberg
 *      Ordinal solution in Apache OpenWebBeans
 *   2011-12-28 - Mark Struberg & Gerhard Petracek
 *      Contributed to Apache DeltaSpike fb0131106481f0b9a8fd
 *   2016-07-14 - Mark Struberg
 *      Extracted the Config part out of DeltaSpike and proposed as Microprofile-Config cf41cf130bcaf5447ff8
 *   2016-11-14 - Emily Jiang / IBM Corp
 *      Methods renamed, JavaDoc and cleanup
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package org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Implement this interfaces to provide a ConfigSource.
 * A ConfigSource provides configuration values from a specific place, like JNDI configuration, a properties file, etc.
 * A ConfigSource is always read-only, any potential updates of the configured values must be handled directly inside each ConfigSource.
 *
 * 

 * The default config sources always available by default are:
 * 

 * System properties (ordinal=400)
 * Environment properties (ordinal=300)
 * /META-INF/microprofile-config.properties (ordinal=100)
 * 
 *
 * Custom ConfigSource will get picked up via the {@link java.util.ServiceLoader} mechanism and and can be registered by
 * providing a file
 * 
 *     META-INF/services/org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSource
 * 
 * which contains the fully qualified {@code ConfigSource} implementation class name as content.
 *
 * Adding a dynamic amount of custom config sources can be done programmatically via
 * {@link org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSourceProvider}.
 *
 * @author Mark Struberg
 * @author Gerhard Petracek
 * @author Emily Jiang
 * @author John D. Ament
 *
 */
public interface ConfigSource {
    String CONFIG_ORDINAL = "config_ordinal";
    /**
     * Return the properties in this config source
     * @return the map containing the properties in this config source
     */
    Map getProperties();

    /**
     * Gets all property names known to this config source, without evaluating the values.
     *
     * For backwards compatibility, there is a default implementation that just returns the keys of {@code getProperties()}
     * slower ConfigSource implementations should replace this with a more performant implementation
     *
     * @return the set of property keys that are known to this ConfigSource
     */
    default Set getPropertyNames() {
        return getProperties().keySet();
    }

    /**
     * Return the ordinal for this config source. If a property is specified in multiple config sources, the value
     * in the config source with the highest ordinal takes precedence.
     * For the config sources with the same ordinal value, the config source names will
     * be used for sorting according to string sorting criteria.
     * Note that this property only gets evaluated during ConfigSource discovery.
     *
     * The default ordinals for the default config sources:
     * 

     *  System properties (default ordinal=400)
     *  Environment properties (default ordinal=300)
     *  /META-INF/microprofile-config.properties (default ordinal=100)
     * 
     *
     *
     * Any ConfigSource part of an application will typically use an ordinal between 0 and 200.
     * ConfigSource provided by the container or 'environment' typically use an ordinal higher than 200.
     * A framework which intends have values overwritten by the application will use ordinals between 0 and 100.
     * The property "config_ordinal" can be specified to override the default value.
     *
     * @return the ordinal value
     */
    default int getOrdinal() {
        String configOrdinal = getValue(CONFIG_ORDINAL);
        if(configOrdinal != null) {
            try {
                return Integer.parseInt(configOrdinal);
            }
            catch (NumberFormatException ignored) {

            }
        }
        return 100;
    }

    /**
     * Return the value for the specified property in this config source.
     * @param propertyName the property name
     * @return the property value
     */
    String getValue(String propertyName);

    /**
     * The name of the config might be used for logging or analysis of configured values.
     *
     * @return the 'name' of the configuration source, e.g. 'property-file mylocation/myproperty.properties'
     */
    String getName();

}