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package javax.enterprise.inject.spi;

import javax.enterprise.inject.spi.builder.BeanAttributesConfigurator;

/**
 * Each {@link AnnotatedType} gets scanned by the CDI container and turned
 * into initial {@link BeanAttributes}. Those BeanAttributes can be modified
 * by observing this very ProcessBeanAttributes system event.
 * The modified BeanAttributes will get used to construct the final {@link Bean}.
 *
 */
public interface ProcessBeanAttributes<T>
{
    /**
     * @return the {@link AnnotatedType} for bean classes, {@link AnnotatedMethod} for producer methods and
     *          {@link AnnotatedField} for producer fields.
     */
    Annotated getAnnotated();

    /**
     * @return the BeanAttributes parsed from the {@link Annotated}
     */
    BeanAttributes<T> getBeanAttributes();

    /**
     * Use the given BeanAttributes to later create the {@link Bean} from it.
     * @param beanAttributes
     */
    void setBeanAttributes(BeanAttributes<T> beanAttributes);

    /**
     * Tell the container it should ignore this Bean.
     */
    void veto();

    /**
     * Adding definition error. Container aborts
     * processing after calling all observers.
     *
     * @param t throwable
     */
    void addDefinitionError(Throwable t);

   /**
    * Creates a bean attributes configurator to configure this bean's attributes.
    *
    * @return
    */
    BeanAttributesConfigurator<T> configureBeanAttributes();
}