tapestry-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tapestry5/Binding2.java

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package org.apache.tapestry5;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;

import org.apache.tapestry5.services.BindingFactory;

/**
 * Extension to {@link Binding} that adds a method to access the generic property type.
 * {@link BindingFactory} instances should ideally return Binding2 objects, not Binding.
 * This is only primarily of interest to {@link ComponentResources}.
 * 
 * @since 5.4
 */
public interface Binding2 extends Binding
{
    /**
     * Returns the generic type of the binding
     * 
     * @see Method#getGenericReturnType()
     * @see java.lang.reflect.Field#getGenericType()
     */
    Type getBindingGenericType();
}