Spring Framework example source code file (MetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory.java)

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The Spring Framework MetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory.java source code

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package org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation;

import org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectInstanceFactory;

/**
 * Subinterface of {@link org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectInstanceFactory}
 * that returns {@link AspectMetadata} associated with AspectJ-annotated classes.
 *
 * <p>Ideally, AspectInstanceFactory would include this method itself, but because
 * AspectMetadata uses Java-5-only {@link org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjType},
 * we need to split out this subinterface.
 *
 * @author Rod Johnson
 * @since 2.0
 * @see AspectMetadata
 * @see org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjType
 */
public interface MetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory extends AspectInstanceFactory {

	/**
	 * Return the AspectJ AspectMetadata for this factory's aspect.
	 * @return the aspect metadata
	 */
	AspectMetadata getAspectMetadata();

}