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package hudson.model;
import hudson.tasks.BuildStep;
import hudson.tasks.Builder;
import hudson.tasks.Publisher;
/**
* Marker interface for those {@link BuildStep}s that can participate in the
* dependency graph computation process.
*
* <p> {@link Publisher}s, {@link Builder}s, and {@link JobProperty}s can
* additional implement this method to add additional edges to the dependency
* graph computation.
*
* @author Nicolas Lalevee
* @author Martin Ficker
* @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
* @since 1.160
*/
public interface DependecyDeclarer {
// I thought about whether this should extend BuildStep or not and decided not to.
// so that this concept can be extended elsewhere, like maven projects and so on.
/**
* Invoked from
* {@link AbstractProject#buildDependencyGraph(DependencyGraph)}.
*
* @param owner The project that owns the publishers, builders, etc. This
* information is conceptually redundant, as those objects are only
* configured against the single owner, but this information is nevertheless
* passed in since often owner information is not recorded. Never null.
* @param graph The dependency graph being built. Never null.
*/
void buildDependencyGraph(AbstractProject owner, DependencyGraph graph);
}