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Supports unit testing by dynamically creating bean objects and populating their fields to default values.

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/*******************************************************************************
 *  * Copyright (c) 2015 Greg Marut.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the GNU Public License v3.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Greg Marut - initial API and implementation
 * 
 ******************************************************************************/
package com.gregmarut.support.beangenerator.value;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

/**
 * Adds a layer of abstraction for a value allowing for the customization for how a value is
 * retrieved
 * 
 * @author Greg Marut
 * @param 
 */
public interface Value
{
	/**
	 * Returns the class for this value
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	Class getType();
	
	/**
	 * Returns the generated value
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	T getValue();
	
	/**
	 * Returns the generated value
	 * 
	 * @param field
	 * the field that this value represents
	 * @return
	 */
	T getValue(Field field);
}