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package org.apache.camel.spi;

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.Consumer;
import org.apache.camel.Processor;

/**
 * Allows SPI to plugin a {@link RestApiConsumerFactory} that creates the Camel {@link Consumer} responsible
 * for handling incoming HTTP GET requests from clients that request to access the REST API documentation.
 * 
 * For example most of the Camel components that supports REST-DSL does that,
 * such as camel-jetty, camel-netty4-http.
 */
public interface RestApiConsumerFactory {

    /**
     * Creates a new REST API Event
     * Driven Consumer, which provides API listing of the REST services
     *
     * @param camelContext the camel context
     * @param processor    the processor
     * @param contextPath  the context-path
     * @param parameters   additional parameters
     *
     * @return a newly created REST API consumer
     * @throws Exception can be thrown
     */
    Consumer createApiConsumer(CamelContext camelContext, Processor processor, String contextPath,
                               RestConfiguration configuration, Map parameters) throws Exception;

}