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Utility Library acting as a replacement for googles guava, certain apache-commons libraries and logging facades/frameworks.

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package de.cuioss.tools.formatting.template;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Provides runtime-information about a bean without resorting to reflection.
 *
 * @author Eugen Fischer
 */
public interface FormatterSupport {

    /**
     * Allow easier access to available properties. Order of available properties
     * and their values has no effect.
     *
     * @return Map of property name -> property Value for
     *         non {@code null} properties
     */
    Map getAvailablePropertyValues();

    /**
     * @return list of all supported properties
     */
    List getSupportedPropertyNames();

}