1 package org.eclipse.aether.collection;
2
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21
22 import org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency;
23
24 /**
25 * Decides what dependencies to include in the dependency graph.
26 * <p>
27 * <strong>Note:</strong> Implementations must be stateless.
28 * <p>
29 * <em>Warning:</em> This hook is called from a hot spot and therefore implementations should pay attention to
30 * performance. Among others, implementations should provide a semantic {@link Object#equals(Object) equals()} method.
31 *
32 * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession#getDependencySelector()
33 * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystem#collectDependencies(org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession,
34 * CollectRequest)
35 */
36 public interface DependencySelector
37 {
38
39 /**
40 * Decides whether the specified dependency should be included in the dependency graph.
41 *
42 * @param dependency The dependency to check, must not be {@code null}.
43 * @return {@code false} if the dependency should be excluded from the children of the current node, {@code true}
44 * otherwise.
45 */
46 boolean selectDependency( Dependency dependency );
47
48 /**
49 * Derives a dependency selector for the specified collection context. When calculating the child selector,
50 * implementors are strongly advised to simply return the current instance if nothing changed to help save memory.
51 *
52 * @param context The dependency collection context, must not be {@code null}.
53 * @return The dependency selector for the target node or {@code null} if dependencies should be unconditionally
54 * included in the sub graph.
55 */
56 DependencySelector deriveChildSelector( DependencyCollectionContext context );
57
58 }