001    /*
002     * Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.apache.commons.clazz.reflect;
017    
018    import java.util.List;
019    
020    /**
021     * Performs introspection for one kind of operations. In the process of
022     * introspection ReflectedClazz invokes ReflectedInstanceFactoryIntrospectors
023     * one after another, discovering factories of one kind at a time.
024     * 
025     * @author <a href="mailto:dmitri@apache.org">Dmitri Plotnikov</a>
026     * @version $Id: ReflectedInstanceFactoryIntrospector.java 155436 2005-02-26 13:17:48Z dirkv $
027     */
028    public interface ReflectedInstanceFactoryIntrospector {
029    
030        /**
031         * Find constructors, methods and perhaps fields constituting factories.
032         * Create ClazzInstanceFactory objects and return them as a list.
033         */
034        List introspectInstanceFactories(
035            ReflectedClazz clazz,
036            Class javaClass);
037    }