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package org.hibernate.search.spi;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;

import org.hibernate.search.backend.spi.Work;

/**
 * When using the Hibernate Core integration (for example) we need to make sure that the
 * entities and collections we're working on are initialized.
 * Initialization strategies might vary according to the integrating framework;
 * when integrating with Infinispan (as Infinispan Query) no initialization is needed.
 *
 * @see org.hibernate.search.impl.SimpleInitializer
 * @author Sanne Grinovero <sanne@hibernate.org> (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc.
 */
public interface InstanceInitializer {

	<T> Class<T> getClassFromWork(Work<T> work);

	/**
	 * @param entity an instance or proxy of T
	 * @return the class from the instance, or the underlying class from a proxy.
	 */
	public <T> Class<T> getClass(T entity);

	/**
	 * @param value the object to unproxy
	 * @return if value is a proxy, unwraps it, otherwise works as a pass-through function.
	 */
	public Object unproxy(Object value);

	/**
	 * @param value the collection to initialize
	 * @return the initialized Collection, to be used on lazily-loading collections
	 */
	public <T> Collection<T> initializeCollection(Collection<T> value);

	/**
	 * @param value the map to initialize
	 * @return the initialized Map, to be used on lazily-loading maps
	 */
	public <K,V> Map<K,V> initializeMap(Map<K,V> value);

	/**
	 * @param value the array to initialize
	 * @return the initialized array, to be used on lazily-loading arrays
	 */
	public Object[] initializeArray(Object[] value);

}