modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ignite/internal/util/lang/GridPeerDeployAware.java

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package org.apache.ignite.internal.util.lang;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Represents any class that needs to maintain or carry on peer deployment information.
 * <p>
 * This interface is intended to be used primarily by Ignite's code.
 * User's code can however implement this interface, for example, if it wraps a
 * closure or a predicate and wants to maintain its peer deployment
 * information so that the user class could be peer-deployed as well.
 */
public interface GridPeerDeployAware extends Serializable {
    /**
     * Gets top level user class being deployed.
     *
     * @return Top level user deployed class.
     */
    public Class<?> deployClass();

    /**
     * Gets class loader for the class. This class loader must be able to load
     * the class returned from {@link #deployClass()} as well as all of its
     * dependencies.
     * <p>
     * Note that in most cases the class loader returned from this method
     * and the class loader for the class returned from {@link #deployClass()} method
     * will be the same. If they are not the same, it is required that the class loader
     * returned from this method still has to be able to load the deploy class and all its
     * dependencies.
     *
     * @return Class loader for the class.
     */
    public ClassLoader classLoader();
}