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package appeng.api.features;


import appeng.api.recipes.ICraftHandler;
import appeng.api.recipes.IRecipeHandler;
import appeng.api.recipes.ISubItemResolver;


public interface IRecipeHandlerRegistry
{

	/**
	 * Add a new Recipe Handler to the parser.
	 *
	 * MUST BE CALLED IN PRE-INIT
	 *
	 * @param name    name of crafthandler
	 * @param handler class of crafthandler
	 */
	void addNewCraftHandler( String name, Class<? extends ICraftHandler> handler );

	/**
	 * Add a new resolver to the parser.
	 *
	 * MUST BE CALLED IN PRE-INIT
	 *
	 * @param sir sub item resolver
	 */
	void addNewSubItemResolver( ISubItemResolver sir );

	/**
	 * @param name name of crafting handler
	 *
	 * @return A recipe handler by name, returns null on failure.
	 */
	ICraftHandler getCraftHandlerFor( String name );

	/**
	 * @return a new recipe handler, which can be used to parse, and read recipe files.
	 */
	IRecipeHandler createNewRecipehandler();

	/**
	 * resolve sub items by name.
	 *
	 * @param nameSpace namespace of item
	 * @param itemName  full name of item
	 *
	 * @return ResolverResult or ResolverResultSet
	 */
	Object resolveItem( String nameSpace, String itemName );
}