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A JSR-330 spec compliant dependency injection framework.

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package io.github.pustike.inject;

import javax.inject.Provider;

/**
 * Interface to implement custom scopes.
 */
public interface Scope {
    /**
     * Scopes a provider. The returned provider returns objects from this scope. If an object does not exist in this
     * scope, the provider can use the given unscoped provider to retrieve one.
     *
     * Scope implementations are strongly encouraged to override {@link Object#toString} in the returned provider
     * and include the backing provider's {@code toString()} output.
     * @param bindingKey binding key
     * @param creator    locates an instance when one doesn't already exist in this scope
     * @return a new provider which only delegates to the given unscoped provider when an instance of the requested
     * object doesn't already exist in this scope
     * @param  the type of the instance being scoped
     */
     Provider scope(BindingKey bindingKey, Provider creator);

    /**
     * A short but useful description of this scope.
     */
    String toString();
}