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package com.google.inject.spi;
import com.google.inject.Binding;
import com.google.inject.Provider;
/**
* A Provider that is part of an extension which supports a custom
* BindingTargetVisitor.
*
* When an extension binds a provider instance, the provider can implement this
* interface to allow users using the
* {@link Binding#acceptTargetVisitor(BindingTargetVisitor)} method to visit a
* custom visitor designed for that extension. A typical implementation within
* the extension would look like
*
* <V, B> V acceptExtensionVisitor(BindingTargetVisitor<B, V> visitor, ProviderInstanceBinding<? extends B>
* binding) {
* if(visitor instanceof MyCustomExtensionVisitor) {
* return ((MyCustomExtensionVisitor<B, V>)visitor).visitCustomExtension(customProperties, binding);
* } else {
* return visitor.visit(binding);
* }
* }
* 'MyCustomExtensionVisitor' in the example above would be an interface the
* extension provides that users can implement in order to be notified of custom
* extension information. These visitor interfaces must extend from
* BindingTargetVisitor.
*
*/
public interface ProviderWithExtensionVisitor extends Provider {
/**
* Instructs the extension determine if the visitor is an instance of a custom
* extension visitor, and if so, visit it using that method. If the visitor is
* not an instance of the custom extension visitor, this method MUST
* call visitor.visit(binding).
*
* Due to issues with generics, the type parameters of this method do not
* relate to the type of the provider. In practice, the 'B' type will always
* be a supertype of 'T'.
*/
V acceptExtensionVisitor(BindingTargetVisitor visitor,
ProviderInstanceBinding binding);
}