1 /*
2 * Copyright (C) 2007 the original author or authors.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
5 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
6 *
7 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
8 *
9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
10 * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
11 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
12 * the License.
13 */
14
15 package org.codehaus.plexus.metadata;
16
17 import java.util.List;
18
19 import org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.ComponentDescriptor;
20
21 /**
22 * An abstraction to allow pluggable {@link ComponentDescriptor} extraction to be dropped.
23 *
24 */
25 public interface ComponentDescriptorExtractor {
26 String ROLE = ComponentDescriptorExtractor.class.getName();
27
28 List<ComponentDescriptor<?>> extract(MetadataGenerationRequest configuration, ComponentDescriptor<?>[] roleDefaults)
29 throws Exception;
30 }