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package org.glassfish.jersey.spi;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Provider interface for external (SPI) providers to provide
 * their configuration properties implementations
 *
 * Priority of providers can be adjusted by Priority annotation
 * or just alphabetically (if no Provider annotation is found)
 */
public interface ExternalConfigurationProvider {

    /**
     * Map of properties from the model (external config file)
     *
     * @return Map of properties loaded by a model from config file
     */
    Map<String, Object> getProperties();

    /**
     * obrain model object which has direct access to external configuration
     *
     * @return model of external properties
     */
    ExternalConfigurationModel getConfiguration();

    /**
     * Merge properties from other provider/model
     *
     * @param input those properties will be merged into ours
     * @return current instance of provider
     */
    ExternalConfigurationModel merge(ExternalConfigurationModel input);
}