Interface EnvironmentCapable

public interface EnvironmentCapable
Interface indicating a component that contains and exposes an Environment reference.

All Spring application contexts are EnvironmentCapable, and the interface is used primarily for performing instanceof checks in framework methods that accept BeanFactory instances that may or may not actually be ApplicationContext instances in order to interact with the environment if indeed it is available.

As mentioned,

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ApplicationContext
extends EnvironmentCapable, and thus exposes a getEnvironment() method; however,
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ConfigurableApplicationContext
redefines
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getEnvironment()
and narrows the signature to return a ConfigurableEnvironment. The effect is that an Environment object is 'read-only' until it is being accessed from a ConfigurableApplicationContext, at which point it too may be configured.
Since:
3.1
Author:
Chris Beams
See Also:

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    Environment
    getEnvironment()
    Return the Environment associated with this component.

  • Method Details