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 }