lightning-core/src/main/java/org/apache/directmemory/lightning/instantiator/ObjectInstantiatorFactory.java

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package org.apache.directmemory.lightning.instantiator;

/**
 * Common interface to all kind of Objenesis objects
 * 
 * @author Henri Tremblay
 */
public interface ObjectInstantiatorFactory
{

    /**
     * Will create a new object without any constructor being called
     * 
     * @param clazz Class to instantiate
     * @return New instance of clazz
     */
    Object newInstance( Class<?> clazz );

    /**
     * Will pick the best instantiator for the provided class. If you need to create a lot of instances from the same
     * class, it is way more efficient to create them from the same ObjectInstantiator than calling
     * {@link #newInstance(Class)}.
     * 
     * @param clazz Class to instantiate
     * @return Instantiator dedicated to the class
     */
    ObjectInstantiator getInstantiatorOf( Class<?> clazz );
}