在Spring的XML文件中通过命名空间配置的标签是怎么解析的？

其实在spring中把解析标签的类都都放在了相应的META-INF目录下的spring.handlers的文件中，比如mvc的命名空间解析设置在spring-webmvc-3.2.5.RELEASE.jar包下META-INF/spring.handlers的文件中。

这说明处理MVC这个命名空间的配置需要使用MvcNamespaceHandler(在其内部将mvc:annotation-driven交给 AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser )，源码如下：

解析配置的接口是org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandler，它的实现结构如下：

在这个interface里定义了三个方法：init,parse,和decorate。init方法用来初始化自己;parse用来将配置的标签转化成spring所需要的BeanDefinition;decorate是装饰的意思，这个方法的作用是对所在的BeanDefinition进行一些修改，用的比较少。

public interface NamespaceHandler {

    void init();

    BeanDefinition parse(Element element, ParserContext parserContext);

    BeanDefinitionHolder decorate(Node source, BeanDefinitionHolder definition, ParserContext parserContext);

}

NamespaceHandler的主要实现类有三个，NamespaceHandlerSupport,SimpleConstructorNamespaceHandler,SimplePropertyNamespaceHandler。NamespaceHandlerSupport就是这个接口的默认实现，一般的XXXNamespaceHandler都实现自这个类，这里只简单的介绍一下NamespaceHandlerSupport。

从源码中可以看出在NamespaceHandlerSupport中并没有做具体的解析工作，而是定义了三个解析器，MvcNamespaceHandler将解析的标签注册到NamespaceHandlerSupport上，通过委托给该元素注册的bean来解析所提供的元素。

public abstract class NamespaceHandlerSupport implements NamespaceHandler {

    private final Map<String, BeanDefinitionParser> parsers =

            new HashMap<String, BeanDefinitionParser>();

    private final Map<String, BeanDefinitionDecorator> decorators =

            new HashMap<String, BeanDefinitionDecorator>();

    private final Map<String, BeanDefinitionDecorator> attributeDecorators =

            new HashMap<String, BeanDefinitionDecorator>();

    @Override

    public BeanDefinition parse(Element element, ParserContext parserContext) {

        return findParserForElement(element, parserContext).parse(element, parserContext);

    }

    private BeanDefinitionParser findParserForElement(Element element, ParserContext parserContext) {

        String localName = parserContext.getDelegate().getLocalName(element);

        BeanDefinitionParser parser = this.parsers.get(localName);

        if (parser == null) {

            parserContext.getReaderContext().fatal(

                    "Cannot locate BeanDefinitionParser for element [" + localName + "]", element);

        }

        return parser;

    }

     @Override

    public BeanDefinitionHolder decorate(

            Node node, BeanDefinitionHolder definition, ParserContext parserContext) {

        return findDecoratorForNode(node, parserContext).decorate(node, definition, parserContext);

    }

    private BeanDefinitionDecorator findDecoratorForNode(Node node, ParserContext parserContext) {

        BeanDefinitionDecorator decorator = null;

        String localName = parserContext.getDelegate().getLocalName(node);

        if (node instanceof Element) {

            decorator = this.decorators.get(localName);

        }

        else if (node instanceof Attr) {

            decorator = this.attributeDecorators.get(localName);

        }

        else {

            parserContext.getReaderContext().fatal(

                    "Cannot decorate based on Nodes of type [" + node.getClass().getName() + "]", node);

        }

        if (decorator == null) {

            parserContext.getReaderContext().fatal("Cannot locate BeanDefinitionDecorator for " +

                    (node instanceof Element ? "element" : "attribute") + " [" + localName + "]", node);

        }

        return decorator;

    }

    protected final void registerBeanDefinitionParser(String elementName, BeanDefinitionParser parser) {

        this.parsers.put(elementName, parser);

    }

    protected final void registerBeanDefinitionDecorator(String elementName, BeanDefinitionDecorator dec) {

        this.decorators.put(elementName, dec);

    }

    protected final void registerBeanDefinitionDecoratorForAttribute(String attrName, BeanDefinitionDecorator dec) {

        this.attributeDecorators.put(attrName, dec);

    }

}

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public class MvcNamespaceHandler extends NamespaceHandlerSupport {

    public void init() {

        registerBeanDefinitionParser("annotation-driven", new AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser());

        registerBeanDefinitionParser("default-servlet-handler", new DefaultServletHandlerBeanDefinitionParser());

        registerBeanDefinitionParser("interceptors", new InterceptorsBeanDefinitionParser());

        registerBeanDefinitionParser("resources", new ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser());

        registerBeanDefinitionParser("view-controller", new ViewControllerBeanDefinitionParser());

    }

}

从这里我们可以看到解析MVC命名空间的所有解析器，其中解析annotation-driven的就是AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser。