org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.domain

Class EntityScanner

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.domain.EntityScanner

public class EntityScanner
extends java.lang.Object

An entity scanner that searches the classpath from an @EntityScan specified packages.

Since:

1.4.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EntityScanner(org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext context) Create a new EntityScanner instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider	createClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider(org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext context) Create a ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider to scan entities based on the specified ApplicationContext.
java.util.Set<java.lang.Class<?>>	scan(java.lang.Class<? extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation>... annotationTypes) Scan for entities with the specified annotations.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EntityScanner

public EntityScanner(org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext context)

Create a new EntityScanner instance.

Parameters:

context - the source application context

Method Detail

scan

@SafeVarargs
public final java.util.Set<java.lang.Class<?>> scan(java.lang.Class<? extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation>... annotationTypes)
                                                          throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

Scan for entities with the specified annotations.

Parameters:

annotationTypes - the annotation types used on the entities

Returns:

a set of entity classes

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException - if an entity class cannot be loaded

createClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider

protected org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider createClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider(org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext context)

Create a ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider to scan entities based on the specified ApplicationContext.

Parameters:

context - the ApplicationContext to use

Returns:

a ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider suitable to scan entities

Since:

2.4.0