001package org.apache.commons.digester3.annotations; 002 003/* 004 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 005 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 006 * distributed with this work for additional information 007 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 008 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 009 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 010 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 015 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 016 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 017 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 018 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 019 * under the License. 020 */ 021 022import java.lang.annotation.Annotation; 023import java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement; 024 025/** 026 * An object capable of providing instances of {@link AnnotationHandler}. 027 * 028 * @since 3.0 029 */ 030public interface AnnotationHandlerFactory 031{ 032 033 /** 034 * Return an instance of the specified type. 035 * 036 * @param <H> The {@link AnnotationHandler} type has to be created 037 * @param type the class of the object to be returned. 038 * @return an instance of the specified class. 039 * @throws Exception if any error occurs while creating the {@link AnnotationHandler} instance. 040 */ 041 <H extends AnnotationHandler<? extends Annotation, ? extends AnnotatedElement>> H newInstance( Class<H> type ) 042 throws Exception; 043 044}