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package freemarker.ext.beans;

/**
 * Implement this to specify what class members are accessible from templates. Implementations must be thread
 * safe, and instances should be generally singletons on JVM level. The last is because FreeMarker tries to cache
 * class introspectors in a global (static, JVM-scope) cache for reuse, and that's only possible if the
 * {@link MemberAccessPolicy} instances used at different places in the JVM are equal according to
 * {@link #equals(Object) (and the singleton object of course {@link #equals(Object)} with itself).
 *
 * @since 2.3.30
 */
public interface MemberAccessPolicy {
    /**
     * Returns the {@link ClassMemberAccessPolicy} that encapsulates the member access policy for a given class.
     */
    ClassMemberAccessPolicy forClass(Class<?> containingClass);
}