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package org.eclipse.aether.collection;

import org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency;

/**
 * Decides whether the dependencies of a dependency node should be traversed as well. Implementations must be stateless.
 * <em>Note:</em> This hook is called from a hot spot and therefore implementations should pay attention to performance.
 * Among others, implementations should provide a semantic {@link Object#equals(Object) equals()} method.
 * 
 * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession#getDependencyTraverser()
 * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystem#collectDependencies(org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession,
 *      CollectRequest)
 */
public interface DependencyTraverser
{

    /**
     * Decides whether the dependencies of the specified dependency should be traversed.
     * 
     * @param dependency The dependency to check, must not be {@code null}.
     * @return {@code true} if the dependency graph builder should recurse into the specified dependency and process its
     *         dependencies, {@code false} otherwise.
     */
    boolean traverseDependency( Dependency dependency );

    /**
     * Derives a dependency traverser that will be used to decide whether the transitive dependencies of the dependency
     * given in the collection context shall be traversed. When calculating the child traverser, implementors are
     * strongly advised to simply return the current instance if nothing changed to help save memory.
     * 
     * @param context The dependency collection context, must not be {@code null}.
     * @return The dependency traverser for the target node or {@code null} if dependencies should be unconditionally
     *         traversed in the sub graph.
     */
    DependencyTraverser deriveChildTraverser( DependencyCollectionContext context );

}
