Instantiator.java

/*
 * Grapht, an open source dependency injector.
 * Copyright 2014-2015 various contributors (see CONTRIBUTORS.txt)
 * Copyright 2010-2014 Regents of the University of Minnesota
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package org.grouplens.grapht;

/**
 * Interface for instantiating components.  It functions much like {@link javax.inject.Provider},
 * except that it reports failure with a checked exception.
 *
 * @author <a href="http://www.grouplens.org">GroupLens Research</a>
 * @since 0.9
 */
public interface Instantiator{
    Object instantiate() throws ConstructionException;

    /**
     * Get the type that this instantiator will instantiate.
     * @return The type returned by this instantiator.
     */
    Class getType();
}