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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.policy.sourcemodel;

import com.sun.xml.internal.ws.policy.PolicyException;

/**
 * Abstract class defines interface for policy model unmarshaller implementations that are specific to underlying
 * persistence layer.
 *
 * Code that depends on JAX-WS should use com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.policy.ModelUnmarshaller
 * instead of this class.
 *
 * @author Marek Potociar
 * @author Fabian Ritzmann
 */
public abstract class PolicyModelUnmarshaller {
    private static final PolicyModelUnmarshaller xmlUnmarshaller = new XmlPolicyModelUnmarshaller();
    
    /**
     * Default constructor to ensure we have a common model unmarshaller base, but only our API classes implemented in this
     * package will be able to extend this abstract class. This is to restrict attempts of extending the class from
     * a client code.
     */
    PolicyModelUnmarshaller() {
        // nothing to intitialize
    }
    
    /**
     * Unmarshalls single policy source model from provided storage reference. Method expects that the storage
     * cursor to be alread placed on the start of a policy expression. Inner comments and whitespaces are skipped
     * in processing. Any other cursor position results in a PolicyException being thrown.
     *
     * @param storage reference to underlying storage that should be used for model unmarshalling
     * @return unmarshalled policy source model. If no policies are found, returns {@code null}.
     * @throws PolicyException in case of the unmarshalling problems
     */
    public abstract PolicySourceModel unmarshalModel(Object storage) throws PolicyException;
    
    /**
     * Factory method that returns policy model unmarshaller able to unmarshal 
     * policy expressions from XML source.
     *
     * Code that depends on JAX-WS should use com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.policy.ModelUnmarshaller.getUnmarshaller()
     * instead of this method.
     *
     * @return policy model unmarshaller able to unmarshal policy expressions from XML source.
     */
    public static PolicyModelUnmarshaller getXmlUnmarshaller() {
        return xmlUnmarshaller;
    }
}