com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.expand
Interface EntityExpander<T>

Type Parameters:

T - the type of entity to expand.

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractRecursiveEntityExpander, SelfExpandingExpander

public interface EntityExpander<T>

Interface for expanding entities.

For recursive expansion consider implementing AbstractRecursiveEntityExpander

Method Summary

T	expand(ExpandContext<T> context, EntityExpanderResolver expanderResolver, EntityCrawler entityCrawler)

Method Detail

expand

T expand(ExpandContext<T> context,
         EntityExpanderResolver expanderResolver,
         EntityCrawler entityCrawler)

Parameters:

context - the current entity context

entityCrawler - the entity crawler to be used for recursive expansion.

expanderResolver - the resolver for finding further expander when doing recursive expansion.

Returns:

the expanded entity. This can be a completely different object (of the same type). This MUST NOT be null.