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package org.gradle.model.internal.core;
import org.gradle.model.internal.type.ModelType;
public interface ModelPromise {
<T> boolean canBeViewedAs(ModelType<T> type);
// These methods return strings rather than types because it may be more complicated than what is able to be expressed via a ModelType.
// Also, we don't want to encourage compatibility checking occurring by looping through such types as we have more options for optimising the compatibility check internally.
// Also also, these methods are only called for reporting so values should typically not be precomputed.
Iterable<String> getTypeDescriptions(MutableModelNode node);
}