1 /* 2 * Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 package org.apache.commons.clazz.reflect; 17 18 import java.util.List; 19 20 /** 21 * Performs introspection for one kind of operations. In the process of 22 * introspection ReflectedClazz invokes ReflectedInstanceFactoryIntrospectors 23 * one after another, discovering factories of one kind at a time. 24 * 25 * @author <a href="mailto:dmitri@apache.org">Dmitri Plotnikov</a> 26 * @version $Id: ReflectedInstanceFactoryIntrospector.java 155436 2005-02-26 13:17:48Z dirkv $ 27 */ 28 public interface ReflectedInstanceFactoryIntrospector { 29 30 /** 31 * Find constructors, methods and perhaps fields constituting factories. 32 * Create ClazzInstanceFactory objects and return them as a list. 33 */ 34 List introspectInstanceFactories( 35 ReflectedClazz clazz, 36 Class javaClass); 37 }