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+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+
+package org.opendaylight.controller.northbound.bundlescanner;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
+
+/**
+ * The bundle scan service provides services which allow introspection of
+ * bundle classes for detecting annotated classes. The scanning is performed
+ * when a bundle is RESOLVED.
+ */
+public interface IBundleScanService {
+ /**
+ * The list of annotations to be scanned
+ */
+ public final String[] ANNOTATIONS_TO_SCAN = {
+ "javax.xml.bind.annotation.*", // JAXB annotatinos
+ "javax.ws.rs.*" // JAX-RS annotatinos
+ };
+
+
+ public List<Class<?>> getAnnotatedClasses(
+ BundleContext context,
+ String[] annotations,
+ Set<String> excludes,
+ boolean includeDependentBundleClasses);
+}