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package org.springframework.messaging.handler;

import org.springframework.core.Ordered;

/**
 * Represents a Spring-managed bean with cross-cutting functionality to be
 * applied to one or more Spring beans with annotation-based message
 * handling methods.
 *
 * <p>Component stereotypes such as
 * {@link org.springframework.stereotype.Controller @Controller} with annotation
 * handler methods often need cross-cutting functionality across all or a subset
 * of such annotated components. A primary example of this is the need for "global"
 * annotated exception handler methods but the concept applies more generally.
 *
 * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
 * @since 4.2
 */
public interface MessagingAdviceBean extends Ordered {

	/**
	 * Return the type of the contained advice bean.
	 * <p>If the bean type is a CGLIB-generated class, the original user-defined
	 * class is returned.
	 */
	Class<?> getBeanType();

	/**
	 * Return the advice bean instance, if necessary resolving a bean specified
	 * by name through the BeanFactory.
	 */
	Object resolveBean();

	/**
	 * Whether this {@link MessagingAdviceBean} applies to the given bean type.
	 * @param beanType the type of the bean to check
	 */
	boolean isApplicableToBeanType(Class<?> beanType);

}
