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package com.google.inject.spi;
import com.google.inject.TypeLiteral;
/**
* Listens for Guice to encounter injectable types. If a given type has its constructor injected in
* one situation but only its methods and fields injected in another, Guice will notify this
* listener once.
*
* <p>Useful for extra type checking, {@linkplain TypeEncounter#register(InjectionListener)
* registering injection listeners}, and {@linkplain TypeEncounter#bindInterceptor(
* com.google.inject.matcher.Matcher, org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInterceptor[]) binding method
* interceptors}.
*
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface TypeListener {
/**
* Invoked when Guice encounters a new type eligible for constructor or members injection. Called
* during injector creation (or afterwards if Guice encounters a type at run time and creates a
* JIT binding).
*
* @param type encountered by Guice
* @param encounter context of this encounter, enables reporting errors, registering injection
* listeners and binding method interceptors for {@code type}.
* @param <I> the injectable type
*/
<I> void hear(TypeLiteral<I> type, TypeEncounter<I> encounter);
}