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package org.springframework.cache.annotation;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheOperation;
import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;

/**
 * Strategy interface for parsing known caching annotation types.
 * {@link AnnotationCacheOperationSource} delegates to such parsers
 * for supporting specific annotation types such as Spring's own
 * {@link Cacheable}, {@link CachePut} and{@link CacheEvict}.
 *
 * @author Costin Leau
 * @author Stephane Nicoll
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 3.1
 * @see AnnotationCacheOperationSource
 * @see SpringCacheAnnotationParser
 */
public interface CacheAnnotationParser {

    /**
     * Determine whether the given class is a candidate for cache operations
     * in the annotation format of this {@code CacheAnnotationParser}.
     * <p>If this method returns {@code false}, the methods on the given class
     * will not get traversed for {@code #parseCacheAnnotations} introspection.
     * Returning {@code false} is therefore an optimization for non-affected
     * classes, whereas {@code true} simply means that the class needs to get
     * fully introspected for each method on the given class individually.
     * @param targetClass the class to introspect
     * @return {@code false} if the class is known to have no cache operation
     * annotations at class or method level; {@code true} otherwise. The default
     * implementation returns {@code true}, leading to regular introspection.
     * @since 5.2
     */
    default boolean isCandidateClass(Class<?> targetClass) {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Parse the cache definition for the given class,
     * based on an annotation type understood by this parser.
     * <p>This essentially parses a known cache annotation into Spring's metadata
     * attribute class. Returns {@code null} if the class is not cacheable.
     * @param type the annotated class
     * @return the configured caching operation, or {@code null} if none found
     * @see AnnotationCacheOperationSource#findCacheOperations(Class)
     */
    @Nullable
    Collection<CacheOperation> parseCacheAnnotations(Class<?> type);

    /**
     * Parse the cache definition for the given method,
     * based on an annotation type understood by this parser.
     * <p>This essentially parses a known cache annotation into Spring's metadata
     * attribute class. Returns {@code null} if the method is not cacheable.
     * @param method the annotated method
     * @return the configured caching operation, or {@code null} if none found
     * @see AnnotationCacheOperationSource#findCacheOperations(Method)
     */
    @Nullable
    Collection<CacheOperation> parseCacheAnnotations(Method method);

}