/*
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* Copyright (C) 2006 EsperTech, Inc. All rights reserved. *
* http://www.espertech.com/esper *
* http://www.espertech.com *
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* The software in this package is published under the terms of the GPL license *
* a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the license.txt file. *
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*/
/***************************************************************************************
* Attribution Notice
*
* This file is imported from Metrics (https://github.com/codahale/metrics subproject metrics-core).
* Metrics is Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Coda Hale, Yammer.com
* Metrics is Published under Apache Software License 2.0, see LICENSE in root folder.
*
* Thank you for the Metrics developers efforts in making their library available under an Apache license.
* EsperTech incorporates Metrics version 0.2.2 in source code form since Metrics depends on SLF4J
* and this dependency is not possible to introduce for Esper.
* *************************************************************************************
*/
package com.espertech.esper.metrics.codahale_metrics.metrics.core;
/**
* A tag interface to indicate that a class is a metric.
*/
public interface Metric {
/**
* Allow the given {@link MetricProcessor} to process {@code this} as a metric.
*
* @param processor a {@link MetricProcessor}
* @param name the name of the current metric
* @param context a given context which should be passed on to {@code processor}
* @param <T> the type of the context object
* @throws Exception if something goes wrong
*/
<T> void processWith(MetricProcessor<T> processor, MetricName name, T context) throws Exception;
}