001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.commons.configuration.reloading; 018 019 import java.io.File; 020 021 /** 022 * A specialized reloading strategy for files that will always report a change 023 * of the monitored file. Thus it is well suited for testing reloading 024 * operations on file-based configurations. 025 * 026 * @version $Id: FileAlwaysReloadingStrategy.java 1301995 2012-03-17 20:24:16Z sebb $ 027 */ 028 public class FileAlwaysReloadingStrategy extends FileChangedReloadingStrategy 029 { 030 /** 031 * Checks whether a reload is necessary. This implementation returns always 032 * <b>true</b>. 033 * 034 * @return a flag whether a reload is required 035 */ 036 @Override 037 public boolean reloadingRequired() 038 { 039 return true; 040 } 041 042 /** 043 * Returns the file that is watched by this strategy. 044 * 045 * @return the monitored file 046 */ 047 public File getMonitoredFile() 048 { 049 return getFile(); 050 } 051 }