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package org.apache.lucene.util;



This interface is used to reflect contents of AttributeSource or AttributeImpl. 
/**
 * This interface is used to reflect contents of {@link AttributeSource} or {@link AttributeImpl}.
 */
@FunctionalInterface
public interface AttributeReflector {

  
This method gets called for every property in an AttributeImpl/AttributeSource passing the class name of the Attribute, a key and the actual value. E.g., an invocation of CharTermAttributeImpl.reflectWith would call this method once using org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute.class as attribute class, "term" as key and the actual value as a String. 
/**
   * This method gets called for every property in an {@link AttributeImpl}/{@link AttributeSource}
   * passing the class name of the {@link Attribute}, a key and the actual value.
   * E.g., an invocation of {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttributeImpl#reflectWith}
   * would call this method once using {@code org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute.class}
   * as attribute class, {@code "term"} as key and the actual value as a String.
   */
  public void reflect(Class<? extends Attribute> attClass, String key, Object value);
  
}