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package org.unitils.spring.util;

import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Factory for creating Spring ApplicationContexts.
 *
 * @author Tim Ducheyne
 * @author Filip Neven
 */
public interface ApplicationContextFactory {


    /**
     * Create an ApplicationContext, in which the complete list of the given resources is loaded. The way in
     * which these locations are interpreted depends on the concrete implementation of the interface. More in particular,
     * the returned instance is an instance of ConfigurableApplicationContext, that is not yet refreshed,
     * i.e. the method ConfigurableApplicationContext.refresh() has neither been called explicitly, nor
     * implicitly by invoking a constructor that also makes sure the configuration is processed by calling the refresh
     * method.
     *
     * @param locations The configuration file locations, not null
     * @return A ConfigurableApplicationContext, on which the refresh() method hasn't been called yet
     */
    ConfigurableApplicationContext createApplicationContext(List locations);

}