core/camel-support/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/support/language/AnnotationExpressionFactory.java

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package org.apache.camel.support.language;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.Expression;

/**
 * A factory which creates an {@link Expression} object from an annotation on a field, property or method parameter
 * of a specified type.
 */
public interface AnnotationExpressionFactory {

    Expression createExpression(CamelContext camelContext, Annotation annotation, LanguageAnnotation languageAnnotation, Class<?> expressionReturnType);
}