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package org.hibernate.validator.cfg;

import org.hibernate.validator.cfg.context.TypeConstraintMappingContext;

/**
 * Represents a constraint mapping configured via the programmatic API.
 *
 * @author Hardy Ferentschik
 * @author Gunnar Morling
 * @author Kevin Pollet  (C) 2011 SERLI
 */
public interface ConstraintMapping {
	/**
	 * Starts defining constraints on the specified bean class. Each bean class may only be configured once within all 
	 * constraint mappings used for configuring one validator factory.
	 *
	 * @param  The type to be configured.
	 * @param beanClass The bean class on which to define constraints. All constraints defined after calling this method
	 * are added to the bean of the type {@code beanClass} until the next call of {@code type}.
	 *
	 * @return Instance allowing for defining constraints on the specified class.
	 */
	 TypeConstraintMappingContext type(Class beanClass);
}




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