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package org.jboss.errai.config.rebind;
import java.util.Collection;
import org.jboss.errai.codegen.meta.MetaClass;
/**
* An <tt>ExposedTypesProvider</tt> is an environment extension component that can be automatically discovered
* at runtime (when annotated with {@link EnvironmentConfigExtension}) to provide types to the environment
* config that application components want made available to the marshalling framework.
*
* @author Mike Brock
*/
public interface ExposedTypesProvider {
/**
* Returns the list of types that should be exposed as portable. The returned
* list may include any kind of MetaClass: primitive types, interfaces,
* abstract and concrete classes, enums, annotation types, and so on.
*
* @return a collection of types that will need to be marshallable, based on
* the type of inspection performed by the underlying implementation.
*/
public Collection<MetaClass> provideTypesToExpose();
}