jodd.introspector.Introspector Maven / Gradle / Ivy
// Copyright (c) 2003-2011, Jodd Team (jodd.org). All Rights Reserved.
package jodd.introspector;
/**
* Provides introspection analysis against any java class.
* Implementations may cache {@link ClassDescriptor} objects to improve performance.
* @see AccessibleIntrospector
* @see SupportedIntrospector
* @see WeakIntrospector
*/
public interface Introspector {
/**
* Returns the {@link jodd.introspector.ClassDescriptor} object for specified class.
*/
ClassDescriptor lookup(Class type);
/**
* Registers new class type. If type already registered, it will be
* reseted and registered again with new class descriptor.
*/
ClassDescriptor register(Class type);
/**
* Resets current cache.
*/
void reset();
/**
* Returns simple statistics information about all cached descriptors and their usage.
*/
String getStatistics();
}