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Public API to the Mattress framework. This is essentially what JSR 311
should be.
/*
* Copyright 2007-2008, Josh Devins.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
package org.mattressframework.api;
/**
* A generic and common interface for all providers (entity readers, writers,
* etc). This defines a single method for determining if this class supports a
* particular Java type.
*
* @author Josh Devins ([email protected])
*/
public interface Provider {
/**
* Ascertain if this implementation supports a particular type.
*/
boolean supportsType(Class type);
}