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package org.terasology.reflection.reflect;
/**
* Provider get and set access to a field. Where possible this will use getter and setter methods (following the Java Bean standards), but otherwise it will
* access the field directly.
*
* @param <T> The type of the object that holds this field
* @param <U> The type of the field itself
*/
public interface FieldAccessor<T, U> {
/**
* Gets the value from the target object
*
* @param target The object to access the field of
* @return The value of the field for the given target
*/
U getValue(T target);
/**
* Sets the value for the target object
*
* @param target The object to access the field of
* @param value The value to set the field to
*/
void setValue(T target, U value);
}