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Fixed Javadocs for extension providers.

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Matt Tucker 2003-05-20 20:23:15 +00:00 committed by mtucker
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source/org/jivesoftware/smack/provider/ProviderManager.java
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@ -111,25 +111,30 @@ import java.net.URL;
* value from the XML into a boolean, int, long, float, double, or Class depending on the
* type the IQ instance expects.<p>
*
* A pluggable system for the &lt;x&gt; portion of packets also exists. Each x provider
* A pluggable system for packet extensions, child elements in a custom namespace for
* message and presence packets, also exists. Each extension provider
* is registered with a name space in the smack.providers file as in the following example:
*
* <pre>
* &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
* &lt;smackProviders&gt;
* &lt;xProvider namespace="jabber:iq:event"
* className="org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.MessageEvent"/&gt;
* &lt;extensionProvider&gt;
* &lt;elementName&gt;x&lt;/elementName&gt;
* &lt;namespace&gt;jabber:iq:event&lt;/namespace&gt;
* &lt;className&gt;org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.MessageEvent&lt/className&gt;
* &lt;/extensionProvider&gt;
* &lt;/smackProviders&gt;</pre>
*
* If multiple provider entries attempt to register to handle the same namespace, the
* first entry loaded from the classpath will take precedence. Whenever an &lt;x&gt; element
* If multiple provider entries attempt to register to handle the same element name and namespace,
* the first entry loaded from the classpath will take precedence. Whenever a packet extension
* is found in a packet, parsing will be passed to the correct provider. Each provider
* can either implement the XProvider or be a standard Java Bean. In the former case,
* each XProvider is responsible for parsing the raw XML stream to contruct an object.
* In the latter case, bean introspection is used to try to automatically set the
* properties of the class using the values in the x sub-element. When a XProvider is
* not registered for a namespace, Smack will store all top-level elements of the sub-packet
* in a Map and attach it to the packet.
* can either implement the PacketExtensionProvider interface or be a standard Java Bean. In
* the former case, each extension provider is responsible for parsing the raw XML stream to
* contruct an object. In the latter case, bean introspection is used to try to automatically
* set the properties of the class using the values in the packet extension sub-element. When an
* extension provider is not registered for an element name and namespace combination, Smack will
* store all top-level elements of the sub-packet in DefaultPacketExtension object and then
* attach it to the packet.
*
* @author Matt Tucker
*/