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package org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.metadata.transformer;

import org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.internal.Priority;
import org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.internal.ToDo;
import org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.internal.UsageCategory;
import org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.internal.UsageInformation;

/**
 * it's just a helper for proxies - you just need it, if you define the equivalent validation strategy as bean and
 * e.g. spring creates a proxy for it. It is not linked to jsr303.
 *
 * if there is also a proxy for the extractor you can use the className property to manually repeat the
 * full qualified class name.
 *
 * @see org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.validation.strategy.BeanValidationStrategyAdapter
 *
 * @author Gerhard Petracek
 * @since 1.x.1
 */
@ToDo(value = Priority.HIGH, description = "see EXTVAL-116")
@UsageInformation({UsageCategory.REUSE})
public interface BeanMetaDataTransformerAdapter extends MetaDataTransformer
{
    /**
     * Returns the MetaDataTransformer class name.
     * @return Class name of the MetaDataTransformer
     */
    String getMetaDataTransformerClassName();
}
