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Central module for Tapestry, containing interfaces to the Java Servlet API and all core services and components.

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package org.apache.tapestry5.services;

import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.UsesMappedConfiguration;

/**
 * Analyzes a session-persisted object, specifically to see if it is dirty or not.  The service implementation uses a
 * mapped configuration to form a {@linkplain org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.StrategyBuilder strategy} based on
 * object type. The service is injectable using the {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Primary} marker
 * annotation.
 *
 * @see org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.ImmutableSessionPersistedObject
 * @see org.apache.tapestry5.OptimizedSessionPersistedObject
 * @since 5.1.0.0
 */
@UsesMappedConfiguration(key = Class.class, value = SessionPersistedObjectAnalyzer.class)
public interface SessionPersistedObjectAnalyzer
{
    /**
     * Passed an object (never null) to see if it is dirty or not. Dirty objects that are stored in the session are
     * re-stored into the session at the end of the request.
     *
     * @param object
     * @return true if object needs to be re-stored into the session
     */
    boolean isDirty(T object);
}