/* * Copyright (C) 2017 The Dagger Authors. * * 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 * limitations under the License. */ package dagger.model; import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet; import dagger.model.BindingGraph.MaybeBinding; import java.util.Optional; import javax.lang.model.element.Element; import javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement; /** * The association between a {@link Key} and the way in which instances of the key are provided. * Includes any {@linkplain DependencyRequest dependencies} that are needed in order to provide the * instances. * *
If a binding is owned by more than one component, there is one {@code Binding} for every
* owning component.
*/
public interface Binding extends MaybeBinding {
@Override
ComponentPath componentPath();
/** @deprecated This always returns {@code Optional.of(this)}. */
@Override
@Deprecated
default Optional For example, consider {@link BindingKind#MULTIBOUND_SET}. A component with many
* {@code @IntoSet} bindings for the same key will have a synthetic binding that depends on all
* contributions, but with no identifiying binding element. A {@code @Multibinds} method will also
* contribute a synthetic binding, but since multiple {@code @Multibinds} methods can coexist in
* the same component (and contribute to one single binding), it has no binding element.
*/
Optional