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 * Copyright 2012 Netflix, Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 *
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package com.netflix.hystrix.strategy.metrics;

import com.netflix.hystrix.HystrixCommand;

/**
 * Metrics publisher for a {@link HystrixCommand} that will be constructed by an implementation of {@link HystrixMetricsPublisher}.
 * <p>
 * Instantiation of implementations of this interface should NOT allocate resources that require shutdown, register listeners or other such global state changes.
 * <p>
 * The <code>initialize()</code> method will be called once-and-only-once to indicate when this instance can register with external services, start publishing metrics etc.
 * <p>
 * Doing this logic in the constructor could result in memory leaks, double-publishing and other such behavior because this can be optimistically constructed more than once and "extras" discarded with
 * only one actually having <code>initialize()</code> called on it.
 */
public interface HystrixMetricsPublisherCommand {

    // TODO should the arguments be given via initialize rather than constructor so they can't accidentally do it wrong?
    
    public void initialize();

}
