1 /** 2 * Copyright (C) 2014 Google Inc. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 17 package com.google.inject.spi; 18 19 import com.google.inject.Key; 20 import com.google.inject.Provides; 21 22 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation; 23 import java.lang.reflect.Method; 24 25 /** 26 * An {@literal @}{@link Provides} binding or binding produced by a 27 * {@link ModuleAnnotatedMethodScanner}. 28 * 29 * @since 4.0 30 * @author sameb@google.com (Sam Berlin) 31 */ 32 public interface ProvidesMethodBinding<T> extends HasDependencies { 33 34 /** Returns the method this binding uses. */ getMethod()35 Method getMethod(); 36 37 /** Returns the instance of the object the method is defined in. */ getEnclosingInstance()38 Object getEnclosingInstance(); 39 40 /** Returns the key of the binding. */ getKey()41 Key<T> getKey(); 42 43 /** 44 * Returns the annotation that caused this binding to be created. For {@code @Provides} methods, 45 * this is an instance of the {@code @Provides} annotation. For bindings from 46 * {@link ModuleAnnotatedMethodScanner}, this is the annotation that caused the scanner to produce 47 * the binding. 48 */ getAnnotation()49 Annotation getAnnotation(); 50 } 51