001 /** 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.camel.spi; 018 019 import org.apache.camel.CamelContext; 020 import org.apache.camel.Component; 021 import org.apache.camel.Exchange; 022 023 /** 024 * Represents a resolver of components from a URI to be able to auto-load them using some 025 * discovery mechanism like {@link org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultComponentResolver} 026 * 027 * @version $Revision: 35332 $ 028 */ 029 public interface ComponentResolver<E extends Exchange> { 030 031 /** 032 * Attempts to resolve the component for the given URI 033 * 034 * @param name the component name to resolve 035 * @param context the context to load the component if it can be resolved 036 * @return the component which is added to the context or null if it can not be resolved 037 */ 038 Component<E> resolveComponent(String name, CamelContext context) throws Exception; 039 }