1. /*

  2.  * Copyright 2002-2004 the original author or authors.

  3.  * 

  4.  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  5.  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  6.  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  7.  * 

  8.  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  9.  * 

  10.  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  11.  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  12.  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  13.  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  14.  * limitations under the License.

  15.  */ 

  16. 

  17. package org.springframework.jdbc.support;

  18. 

  19. import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;

  20. import java.sql.SQLException;

  21. 

  22. /** 

  23.  * A callback interface used by the JdbcUtils class. Implementations of this

  24.  * interface perform the actual work of extracting database meta data, but

  25.  * don't need to worry about exception handling. SQLExceptions will be caught

  26.  * and handled correctly by the  JdbcUtils class.

  27.  * @author Thomas Risberg

  28.  */

  29. public interface DatabaseMetaDataCallback {

  30. 	

  31. 	/** 

  32. 	 * Implementations must implement this method to process the meta data

  33. 	 * passed in. Exactly what the implementation chooses to do is up to it.

  34. 	 * @param dbmd the DatabaseMetaData to process

  35. 	 * @throws SQLException if a SQLException is encountered getting

  36. 	 * column values (that is, there's no need to catch SQLException)

  37. 	 */

  38. 	Object processMetaData(DatabaseMetaData dbmd) throws SQLException; 

  39. 

  40. }