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/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
 * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or .
 */
package org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.hibernate.boot.AttributeConverterInfo;
import org.hibernate.boot.jaxb.spi.Binding;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AttributeConverterDefinition;

/**
 * Represents the result of the first step of the process of building {@link org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources}
 * reference into a {@link org.hibernate.boot.Metadata} reference.
 * 
 * Essentially it represents thecombination of:

 *     domain classes, packages and mapping files defined via MetadataSources
 *     attribute converters defined via MetadataBuildingOptions
 *     classes, converters, packages and mapping files auto-discovered as part of scanning
 * 
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface ManagedResources {

	/**
	 * Informational access to the AttributeConverter definitions known about.  Changes to made to
	 * the returned list have no effect.
	 *
	 * @return The AttributeConverter definitions.
	 */
	Collection getAttributeConverterDefinitions();

	/**
	 * Informational access to any entity and component classes in the user domain model known by Class
	 * reference .  Changes to made to the returned list have no effect.
	 *
	 * @return The list of entity/component classes known by Class reference.
	 */
	Collection getAnnotatedClassReferences();

	/**
	 * Informational access to any entity and component classes in the user domain model known by name.
	 * Changes to made to the returned list have no effect.
	 *
	 * @return The list of entity/component classes known by name.
	 */
	Collection getAnnotatedClassNames();

	/**
	 * Informational access to any known annotated package names (packages with a {@code package-info.class}
	 * file that Hibernate has been told about).  Changes to made to the returned list have no effect.
	 *
	 * @return The list of known annotated package names.
	 */
	Collection getAnnotatedPackageNames();

	/**
	 * Informational access to binding for all known XML mapping files.  Changes to made to the returned
	 * list have no effect.
	 *
	 * @return The list of bindings for all known XML mapping files.
	 */
	Collection getXmlMappingBindings();
}