ExternalResourceDriverFactory (Flink : 2.0-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

GPUDriverFactory
```
@PublicEvolving
public interface ExternalResourceDriverFactory
```
Factory for ExternalResourceDriver. Instantiate a driver with configuration.
Drivers that can be instantiated with a factory automatically qualify for being loaded as a plugin, so long as the driver jar is self-contained (excluding Flink dependencies) and contains a META-INF/services/org.apache.flink.api.common.externalresource.ExternalResourceDriverFactory file containing the qualified class name of the factory.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ExternalResourceDriver`	`createExternalResourceDriver(Configuration config)`	Construct the ExternalResourceDriver from configuration.

- Method Detail
  - createExternalResourceDriver
```
ExternalResourceDriver createExternalResourceDriver(Configuration config)
                                             throws Exception
```
    Construct the ExternalResourceDriver from configuration.
    
    Parameters:
    
    config - configuration for this external resource
    
    Returns:
    
    the driver for this external resource
    
    Throws:
    
    Exception - if there is something wrong during the creation