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015package org.apache.tapestry5.services.transform;
016
017import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.UsesOrderedConfiguration;
018import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.ChainBuilder;
019import org.apache.tapestry5.model.MutableComponentModel;
020import org.apache.tapestry5.plastic.PlasticClass;
021import org.apache.tapestry5.services.ComponentClassTransformWorker;
022
023/**
024 * Interface for a set of objects that can perform transformation of component classes. Implementations should
025 * be thread safe and ideally stateless (all necessary state can be stored inside the {@link PlasticClass}).
026 * <p>
027 * The ComponentClassTransformWorker service uses an ordered configuration of these works as a {@linkplain ChainBuilder
028 * chain of command}. For compatibility with the code compiled for Tapestry 5.2, contributions of type
029 * {@link ComponentClassTransformWorker} are type coerced into this type automatically.
030 * 
031 * @since 5.3
032 * @see PlasticClass
033 */
034@UsesOrderedConfiguration(ComponentClassTransformWorker2.class)
035public interface ComponentClassTransformWorker2
036{
037    /**
038     * Invoked to perform part of the transformation of the {@link PlasticClass}.
039     * 
040     * @param plasticClass
041     *            component class being transformed
042     * @param support
043     *            additional utilities needed during the transformation
044     * @param model
045     *            the model for the component being transformed
046     */
047    void transform(PlasticClass plasticClass, TransformationSupport support, MutableComponentModel model);
048}