+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2011 Association for Decentralized Information Management in\r
+ * Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.databoard.binding.reflection;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.databoard.binding.Binding;\r
+import org.simantics.databoard.binding.error.BindingConstructionException;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * Binding provider is an interface for providers that provide context-specific\r
+ * or hand-written bindings for the whole binding construction mechanism.\r
+ *\r
+ * @author toni.kalajainen@semantum.fi\r
+ */\r
+public interface BindingProvider {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Construct a binding for a request. This method returns null if a binding\r
+ * cannot be provided by this factory. Exception is thrown if construction\r
+ * is expected to success but fails for a reason.\r
+ * \r
+ * If this class constructs a compositive type: Array, Map, Optional, \r
+ * Record or Union, the composite types/fields need not be filled, and \r
+ * should be left null. They are filled by the caller. \r
+ * \r
+ * @param request\r
+ * @param mainFactory master factory\r
+ * @return binding or <code>null</code> \r
+ * @throws BindingConstructionException\r
+ */\r
+ Binding provideBinding(ClassBindingFactory mainFactory, BindingRequest request) throws BindingConstructionException;\r
+ \r
+}\r