core/src/com/google/inject/spi/ModuleAnnotatedMethodScanner.java

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package com.google.inject.spi;

import com.google.inject.Binder;
import com.google.inject.Key;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Allows extensions to scan modules for annotated methods and bind those methods
 * as providers, similar to {@code @Provides} methods.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public abstract class ModuleAnnotatedMethodScanner {

  /**
   * Returns the annotations this should scan for. Every method in the module that has one of these
   * annotations will create a Provider binding, with the return value of the binding being what's
   * provided and the parameters of the method being dependencies of the provider.
   */
  public abstract Set<? extends Class<? extends Annotation>> annotationClasses();

  /**
   * Prepares a method for binding. This {@code key} parameter is the key discovered from looking at
   * the binding annotation and return value of the method. Implementations can modify the key to
   * instead bind to another key. For example, Multibinder may want to change
   * {@code @SetProvides String provideFoo()} to bind into a unique Key within the multibinder
   * instead of binding {@code String}.
   *
   * <p>The injection point and annotation are provided in case the implementation wants to set the
   * key based on the property of the annotation or if any additional preparation is needed for any
   * of the dependencies. The annotation is guaranteed to be an instance of one the classes returned
   * by {@link #annotationClasses}.
   */
  public abstract <T> Key<T> prepareMethod(Binder binder, Annotation annotation, Key<T> key,
      InjectionPoint injectionPoint);

}