1 /** 2 * Copyright (C) 2011 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.grapher; 18 19 import com.google.inject.Binding; 20 21 /** 22 * Creator of node aliases. Used by dependency graphers to merge nodes in the internal Guice graph 23 * into a single node on the rendered graph. 24 * 25 * @author bojand@google.com (Bojan Djordjevic) 26 * @since 4.0 27 */ 28 public interface AliasCreator { 29 /** 30 * Returns aliases for the given dependency graph. The aliases do not need to be transitively 31 * resolved, i.e. it is valid to return an alias (X to Y) and an alias (Y to Z). It is the 32 * responsibility of the caller to resolve this to (X to Z) and (Y to Z). 33 * 34 * @param bindings bindings that make up the dependency graph 35 * @return aliases that should be applied on the graph 36 */ createAliases(Iterable<Binding<?>> bindings)37 Iterable<Alias> createAliases(Iterable<Binding<?>> bindings); 38 } 39