| /* |
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| * |
| * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the |
| * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at |
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| * |
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| * version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at |
| * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html. |
| * |
| * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0 |
| */ |
| |
| package org.glassfish.jersey.spi; |
| |
| import javax.ws.rs.ext.RuntimeDelegate.HeaderDelegate; |
| |
| /** |
| * A provider that supports the conversion of an HTTP header, of type T, to and |
| * from a {@link String}. |
| * <p> |
| * An implementation (a service-provider) identifies itself by placing a |
| * provider-configuration file (if not already present), |
| * "org.glassfish.jersey.header.spi.HeaderDelegateProvider" in the |
| * resource directory <tt>META-INF/services</tt>, and including the fully qualified |
| * service-provider-class of the implementation in the file. |
| |
| * @param <T> the type of the header. |
| * @author Paul Sandoz |
| * @author Marek Potociar |
| */ |
| @Contract |
| public interface HeaderDelegateProvider<T> extends HeaderDelegate<T> { |
| |
| /** |
| * Ascertain if the Provider supports a particular type. |
| * |
| * @param type the type that is to be supported. |
| * @return true if the type is supported, otherwise false. |
| */ |
| boolean supports(Class<?> type); |
| } |