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 property - scalar, indexed, mapped,
22 * etc. In the process of introspection ReflectedClazz invokes
23 * ReflectedPropertyIntrospectors one after another, discovering properties of
24 * one kind at a time.
25 *
26 * @author <a href="mailto:dmitri@apache.org">Dmitri Plotnikov</a>
27 * @version $Id: ReflectedPropertyIntrospector.java 155436 2005-02-26 13:17:48Z dirkv $
28 */
29 public interface ReflectedPropertyIntrospector {
30
31 /**
32 * Find methods and fields constituting properties of the
33 * corresponding kind. Create ClazzProperty objects and
34 * return them as a list. The clazz may already
35 * have been populated with properties created by other methods.
36 */
37 List introspectProperties(ReflectedClazz clazz, Class javaClass);
38 }