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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.struts2.factory;
-
-import org.apache.struts2.ObjectFactory;
-import org.apache.struts2.Result;
-import org.apache.struts2.config.ConfigurationException;
-import org.apache.struts2.config.entities.ResultConfig;
-import org.apache.struts2.inject.Inject;
-import org.apache.struts2.util.reflection.ReflectionException;
-import org.apache.struts2.util.reflection.ReflectionExceptionHandler;
-import org.apache.struts2.util.reflection.ReflectionProvider;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-
-/**
- * Default implementation
- *
- * @deprecated since 6.7.0, use {@link StrutsResultFactory} instead.
- */
-@Deprecated
-public class DefaultResultFactory implements ResultFactory {
-
-    private ObjectFactory objectFactory;
-    private ReflectionProvider reflectionProvider;
-
-    @Inject
-    public void setObjectFactory(ObjectFactory objectFactory) {
-        this.objectFactory = objectFactory;
-    }
-
-    @Inject
-    public void setReflectionProvider(ReflectionProvider reflectionProvider) {
-        this.reflectionProvider = reflectionProvider;
-    }
-
-    public Result buildResult(ResultConfig resultConfig, Map<String, Object> extraContext) throws Exception {
-        String resultClassName = resultConfig.getClassName();
-        if (resultClassName == null) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        Object o = objectFactory.buildBean(resultClassName, extraContext);
-
-        if (!(o instanceof Result result)) {
-            throw new ConfigurationException("Class [" + resultClassName + "] does not implement Result", resultConfig);
-        }
-
-        Map<String, String> params = resultConfig.getParams();
-        if (params != null) {
-            for (Map.Entry<String, String> paramEntry : params.entrySet()) {
-                try {
-                    reflectionProvider.setProperty(paramEntry.getKey(), paramEntry.getValue(), result, extraContext, true);
-                } catch (ReflectionException ex) {
-                    if (result instanceof ReflectionExceptionHandler reflectionExceptionHandler) {
-                        reflectionExceptionHandler.handle(ex);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        return result;
-    }
-
-}