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package javax.ws.rs.core;
/**
* A feature extension contract.
*
* Typically encapsulates a concept or facility that involves configuration of multiple providers
* (e.g. filters or interceptors) and/or properties.
*
* A {@code Feature} is a special type of JAX-RS configuration meta-provider. Once a feature is registered,
* it's {@link #configure(FeatureContext)} method is invoked during JAX-RS runtime configuration and bootstrapping
* phase allowing the feature to further configure the runtime context in which it has been registered.
* From within the invoked {@code configure(...)} method a feature may provide additional runtime configuration
* for the facility or conceptual domain it represents, such as registering additional contract providers,
* including nested features and/or specifying domain-specific properties.
*
*
* @author Marek Potociar
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface Feature {
/**
* A call-back method called when the feature is to be enabled in a given
* runtime configuration scope.
*
* The responsibility of the feature is to properly update the supplied runtime configuration context
* and return {@code true} if the feature was successfully enabled or {@code false} otherwise.
*
* Note that under some circumstances the feature may decide not to enable itself, which
* is indicated by returning {@code false}. In such case the configuration context does
* not add the feature to the collection of enabled features and a subsequent call to
* {@link Configuration#isEnabled(Feature)} or {@link Configuration#isEnabled(Class)} method
* would return {@code false}.
*
*
* @param context configurable context in which the feature should be enabled.
* @return {@code true} if the feature was successfully enabled, {@code false}
* otherwise.
*/
public boolean configure(FeatureContext context);
}