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Object mapping implementation written as an alternative to modelmapper which is able to support inheritance, handles flattening / expanding in a precise way, and is extensible / configurable

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package net.projectmonkey.object.mapper.analysis.tokenizer;

import net.projectmonkey.object.mapper.analysis.result.PropertyPathElement;

import java.util.List;

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 *
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/**
 * Interface representing a property name tokenizer.
 *
 * N.B. Implementations of PropertyNameTokenizer should be referenced statically
 * or define equals in a way which means that separate instances will
 * be considered equal if the output from them will be the same.
 *
 * This is required since it forms part of the {@link net.projectmonkey.object.mapper.analysis.cache.MappingsCacheKey}..
 *
 * @author Andy Moody
 */
public interface PropertyNameTokenizer
{

	List tokenizePath(PropertyPathElement element);

}