Document all remaining public methods on BeanDefinitionParserDelegate

Closes gh-23349

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java

@@ -673,6 +673,9 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 				parentName, className, this.readerContext.getBeanClassLoader());
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Parse the meta elements underneath the given element, if any.
+	 */
 	public void parseMetaElements(Element ele, BeanMetadataAttributeAccessor attributeAccessor) {
 		NodeList nl = ele.getChildNodes();
 		for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
@@ -688,23 +691,27 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Parse the given autowire attribute value into
+	 * {@link AbstractBeanDefinition} autowire constants.
+	 */
 	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
-	public int getAutowireMode(String attValue) {
-		String att = attValue;
-		if (isDefaultValue(att)) {
-			att = this.defaults.getAutowire();
+	public int getAutowireMode(String attrValue) {
+		String attr = attrValue;
+		if (isDefaultValue(attr)) {
+			attr = this.defaults.getAutowire();
 		}
 		int autowire = AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_NO;
-		if (AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME_VALUE.equals(att)) {
+		if (AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME_VALUE.equals(attr)) {
 			autowire = AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME;
 		}
-		else if (AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE_VALUE.equals(att)) {
+		else if (AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE_VALUE.equals(attr)) {
 			autowire = AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE;
 		}
-		else if (AUTOWIRE_CONSTRUCTOR_VALUE.equals(att)) {
+		else if (AUTOWIRE_CONSTRUCTOR_VALUE.equals(attr)) {
 			autowire = AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_CONSTRUCTOR;
 		}
-		else if (AUTOWIRE_AUTODETECT_VALUE.equals(att)) {
+		else if (AUTOWIRE_AUTODETECT_VALUE.equals(attr)) {
 			autowire = AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_AUTODETECT;
 		}
 		// Else leave default value.
@@ -1001,6 +1008,12 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Parse a value, ref or collection sub-element of a property or
+	 * constructor-arg element.
+	 * @param ele subelement of property element; we don't know which yet
+	 * @param bd the current bean definition (if any)
+	 */
 	public Object parsePropertySubElement(Element ele, BeanDefinition bd) {
 		return parsePropertySubElement(ele, bd, null);
 	}
@@ -1009,6 +1022,7 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 	 * Parse a value, ref or collection sub-element of a property or
 	 * constructor-arg element.
 	 * @param ele subelement of property element; we don't know which yet
+	 * @param bd the current bean definition (if any)
 	 * @param defaultValueType the default type (class name) for any
 	 * {@code <value>} tag that might be created
 	 */
@@ -1396,10 +1410,21 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 		return TRUE_VALUE.equals(value);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Parse a custom element (outside of the default namespace).
+	 * @param ele the element to parse
+	 * @return the resulting bean definition
+	 */
 	public BeanDefinition parseCustomElement(Element ele) {
 		return parseCustomElement(ele, null);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Parse a custom element (outside of the default namespace).
+	 * @param ele the element to parse
+	 * @param containingBd the containing bean definition (if any)
+	 * @return the resulting bean definition
+	 */
 	public BeanDefinition parseCustomElement(Element ele, BeanDefinition containingBd) {
 		String namespaceUri = getNamespaceURI(ele);
 		NamespaceHandler handler = this.readerContext.getNamespaceHandlerResolver().resolve(namespaceUri);
@@ -1410,14 +1435,27 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 		return handler.parse(ele, new ParserContext(this.readerContext, this, containingBd));
 	}
 
-	public BeanDefinitionHolder decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(Element ele, BeanDefinitionHolder definitionHolder) {
-		return decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(ele, definitionHolder, null);
+	/**
+	 * Decorate the given bean definition through a namespace handler, if applicable.
+	 * @param ele the current element
+	 * @param originalDef the current bean definition
+	 * @return the decorated bean definition
+	 */
+	public BeanDefinitionHolder decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(Element ele, BeanDefinitionHolder originalDef) {
+		return decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(ele, originalDef, null);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Decorate the given bean definition through a namespace handler, if applicable.
+	 * @param ele the current element
+	 * @param originalDef the current bean definition
+	 * @param containingBd the containing bean definition (if any)
+	 * @return the decorated bean definition
+	 */
 	public BeanDefinitionHolder decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(
-			Element ele, BeanDefinitionHolder definitionHolder, BeanDefinition containingBd) {
+			Element ele, BeanDefinitionHolder originalDef, BeanDefinition containingBd) {
 
-		BeanDefinitionHolder finalDefinition = definitionHolder;
+		BeanDefinitionHolder finalDefinition = originalDef;
 
 		// Decorate based on custom attributes first.
 		NamedNodeMap attributes = ele.getAttributes();
@@ -1437,6 +1475,14 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 		return finalDefinition;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Decorate the given bean definition through a namespace handler,
+	 * if applicable.
+	 * @param node the current child node
+	 * @param originalDef the current bean definition
+	 * @param containingBd the containing bean definition (if any)
+	 * @return the decorated bean definition
+	 */
 	public BeanDefinitionHolder decorateIfRequired(
 			Node node, BeanDefinitionHolder originalDef, BeanDefinition containingBd) {
 
@@ -1511,10 +1557,16 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 		return desiredName.equals(node.getNodeName()) || desiredName.equals(getLocalName(node));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Determine whether the given URI indicates the default namespace.
+	 */
 	public boolean isDefaultNamespace(String namespaceUri) {
 		return (!StringUtils.hasLength(namespaceUri) || BEANS_NAMESPACE_URI.equals(namespaceUri));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Determine whether the given node indicates the default namespace.
+	 */
 	public boolean isDefaultNamespace(Node node) {
 		return isDefaultNamespace(getNamespaceURI(node));
 	}