using System;

namespace Lucene.Net.Util
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// This interface is used to reflect contents of <see cref="AttributeSource"/> or <see cref="Attribute"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public interface IAttributeReflector
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// LUCENENET specific overload to support generics.
        /// </summary>
        void Reflect<T>(string key, object value)
            where T : IAttribute;

        /// <summary>
        /// This method gets called for every property in an <see cref="Attribute"/>/<see cref="AttributeSource"/>
        /// passing the <see cref="Type"/> of the <see cref="IAttribute"/>, a <paramref name="key"/> and the actual <paramref name="value"/>.
        /// E.g., an invocation of <see cref="Analysis.TokenAttributes.CharTermAttribute.ReflectWith(IAttributeReflector)"/>
        /// would call this method once using <see cref="T:typeof(Analysis.TokenAttributes.ICharTermAttribute)"/>
        /// as attribute type, <c>"term"</c> as <paramref name="key"/> and the actual <paramref name="value"/> as a <see cref="string"/>.
        /// </summary>
        void Reflect(Type type, string key, object value);
    }
}