aether-api/src/main/java/org/eclipse/aether/graph/DependencyFilter.java

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package org.eclipse.aether.graph;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * A filter to include/exclude dependency nodes during other operations.
 */
public interface DependencyFilter
{

    /**
     * Indicates whether the specified dependency node shall be included or excluded.
     * 
     * @param node The dependency node to filter, must not be {@code null}.
     * @param parents The (read-only) chain of parent nodes that leads to the node to be filtered, must not be
     *            {@code null}. Iterating this (possibly empty) list walks up the dependency graph towards the root
     *            node, i.e. the immediate parent node (if any) is the first node in the list. The size of the list also
     *            denotes the zero-based depth of the filtered node.
     * @return {@code true} to include the dependency node, {@code false} to exclude it.
     */
    boolean accept( DependencyNode node, List<DependencyNode> parents );

}