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<pre><span class="sourceLineNo">001</span>/*-<a name="line.1"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">002</span> *******************************************************************************<a name="line.2"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">003</span> * Copyright (c) 2011, 2016 Diamond Light Source Ltd.<a name="line.3"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">004</span> * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials<a name="line.4"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">005</span> * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0<a name="line.5"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">006</span> * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at<a name="line.6"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">007</span> * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html<a name="line.7"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">008</span> *<a name="line.8"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">009</span> * Contributors:<a name="line.9"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">010</span> * Peter Chang - initial API and implementation and/or initial documentation<a name="line.10"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">011</span> *******************************************************************************/<a name="line.11"></a>
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<span class="sourceLineNo">013</span>package org.eclipse.january.dataset;<a name="line.13"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">014</span><a name="line.14"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">015</span>import java.util.List;<a name="line.15"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">016</span><a name="line.16"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">017</span>import org.eclipse.january.MetadataException;<a name="line.17"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">018</span>import org.eclipse.january.metadata.IMetadata;<a name="line.18"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">019</span>import org.eclipse.january.metadata.MetadataType;<a name="line.19"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">020</span><a name="line.20"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">021</span>/**<a name="line.21"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">022</span> * Interface which acts to provide metadata from an object<a name="line.22"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">023</span> */<a name="line.23"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">024</span>public interface IMetadataProvider {<a name="line.24"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">025</span><a name="line.25"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">026</span> /**<a name="line.26"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">027</span> * @deprecated Use {@link #getFirstMetadata(IMetadata.class)} instead<a name="line.27"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">028</span> * @return an instance of IMetadata<a name="line.28"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">029</span> * @throws Exception<a name="line.29"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">030</span> */<a name="line.30"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">031</span> @Deprecated<a name="line.31"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">032</span> public IMetadata getMetadata() throws Exception;<a name="line.32"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">033</span><a name="line.33"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">034</span> /**<a name="line.34"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">035</span> * @param clazz if null return everything<a name="line.35"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">036</span> * @return list of metadata with given class (or its super interface)<a name="line.36"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">037</span> * @throws MetadataException<a name="line.37"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">038</span> */<a name="line.38"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">039</span> public &lt;S extends MetadataType, T extends S&gt; List&lt;S&gt; getMetadata(Class&lt;T&gt; clazz) throws MetadataException;<a name="line.39"></a>
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<span class="sourceLineNo">041</span> /**<a name="line.41"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">042</span> * @param clazz if null return first from everything<a name="line.42"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">043</span> * @return first element from list of metadata with given class (or its super interface)<a name="line.43"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">044</span> */<a name="line.44"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">045</span> public &lt;S extends MetadataType, T extends S&gt; S getFirstMetadata(Class&lt;T&gt; clazz);<a name="line.45"></a>
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