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package com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion;
/**
* Determines what the key and and element class of a Map or Collection should be. For Maps, the elements are the
* values. For Collections, the elements are the elements of the collection.
* <p/>
* See the implementations for javadoc description for the methods as they are dependent on the concrete implementation.
*
* @author Gabriel Zimmerman
*/
public interface ObjectTypeDeterminer {
public Class getKeyClass(Class parentClass, String property);
public Class getElementClass(Class parentClass, String property, Object key);
public String getKeyProperty(Class parentClass, String property);
public boolean shouldCreateIfNew(Class parentClass, String property, Object target, String keyProperty, boolean isIndexAccessed);
}