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package org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
/**
* Simple {@link SourceExtractor} implementation that just passes
* the candidate source metadata object through for attachment.
*
* <p>Using this implementation means that tools will get raw access to the
* underlying configuration source metadata provided by the tool.
*
* <p>This implementation <strong>should not</strong> be used in a production
* application since it is likely to keep too much metadata in memory
* (unnecessarily).
*
* @author Rob Harrop
* @since 2.0
*/
public class PassThroughSourceExtractor implements SourceExtractor {
/**
* Simply returns the supplied <code>sourceCandidate</code> as-is.
* @param sourceCandidate the source metadata
* @return the supplied <code>sourceCandidate</code>
*/
public Object extractSource(Object sourceCandidate, Resource definingResource) {
return sourceCandidate;
}
}
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