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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.model.wsdl;

/**
 * Interface that represents WSDL concepts that
 * can have extensions.
 *
 * @author Vivek Pandey
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 */
public interface WSDLExtensible extends WSDLObject {
    /**
     * Gets all the {@link WSDLExtension}s
     * added through {@link #addExtension(WSDLExtension)}.
     *
     * @return
     *      never null.
     */
    Iterable<WSDLExtension> getExtensions();

    /**
     * Gets all the extensions that is assignable to the given type.
     *
     * <p>
     * This allows clients to find specific extensions in a type-safe
     * and convenient way.
     *
     * @param type
     *      The type of the extension to obtain. Must not be null.
     *
     * @return
     *      Can be an empty fromjava.collection but never null.
     */
    <T extends WSDLExtension> Iterable<T> getExtensions(Class<T> type);

    /**
     * Gets the extension that is assignable to the given type.
     *
     * <p>
     * This is just a convenient version that does
     *
     * <pre>
     * Iterator itr = getExtensions(type);
     * if(itr.hasNext())  return itr.next();
     * else               return null;
     * </pre>
     *
     * @return
     *      null if the extension was not found.
     */
    <T extends WSDLExtension> T getExtension(Class<T> type);

    /**
     * Adds a new {@link WSDLExtension}
     * to this object.
     *
     * @param extension
     *      must not be null.
     */
    void addExtension(WSDLExtension extension);
}
