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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2008, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
 * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
 */

// Contributors:
//     Linda DeMichiel - 2.1
//     Linda DeMichiel - 2.0

package jakarta.persistence.spi;

import java.security.ProtectionDomain;
import java.lang.instrument.IllegalClassFormatException;

/**
 * A persistence provider supplies an instance of this 
 * interface to the {@link PersistenceUnitInfo#addTransformer 
 * PersistenceUnitInfo.addTransformer}
 * method. The supplied transformer instance will get 
 * called to transform entity class files when they are 
 * loaded or redefined. The transformation occurs before  
 * the class is defined by the JVM.
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */
public interface ClassTransformer {

    /**
     * Invoked when a class is being loaded or redefined.
     * The implementation of this method may transform the 
     * supplied class file and return a new replacement class 
     * file.
     *
     * @param loader  the defining loader of the class to be 
     *        transformed, may be null if the bootstrap loader
     * @param className  the name of the class in the internal form 
     *        of fully qualified class and interface names 
     * @param classBeingRedefined  if this is a redefine, the 
     *        class being redefined, otherwise null
     * @param protectionDomain  the protection domain of the 
     *        class being defined or redefined
     * @param classfileBuffer  the input byte buffer in class 
     *        file format - must not be modified 
     * @return a well-formed class file buffer (the result of 
     *         the transform), or null if no transform is performed
     * @throws IllegalClassFormatException  if the input does 
     *         not represent a well-formed class file
     */
    byte[] transform(ClassLoader loader,
                     String className,
                     Class classBeingRedefined,
                     ProtectionDomain protectionDomain, 
                     byte[] classfileBuffer) 
        throws IllegalClassFormatException;
}