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/*
 * Fabric3
 * Copyright ? 2008 Metaform Systems Limited
 *
 * This proprietary software may be used only connection with the Fabric3 license
 * (the ?License?), a copy of which is included in the software or may be
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 */
package org.fabric3.introspection.java;

import org.fabric3.introspection.IntrospectionContext;
import org.fabric3.scdl.Implementation;
import org.fabric3.scdl.InjectingComponentType;

/**
 * Interface to a service that walks a Java class and updates the implementation definition based on annotations found.  Errors and warnings are
 * reported in the IntrospectionContext.
 *
 * @version $Rev: 5481 $ $Date: 2008-09-26 02:36:30 -0700 (Fri, 26 Sep 2008) $
 * @param  the type of implementation that the clas is for
 */
public interface ClassWalker> {
    /**
     * Walk a class and update the implementation definition. If errors or warnings are encountered, they will be collated in the
     * IntrospectionContext.
     *
     * @param implementation the implementation definition
     * @param clazz          the Java class to walk
     * @param context        the current introspection context
     */
    void walk(I implementation, Class clazz, IntrospectionContext context);
}