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package com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message;

import com.sun.istack.internal.Nullable;

/**
 * {@link PropertySet} that combines properties exposed from multiple
 * {@link PropertySet}s into one.
 *
 * <p>
 * This implementation allows one {@link PropertySet} to assemble
 * all properties exposed from other "satellite" {@link PropertySet}s.
 * (A satellite may itself be a {@link DistributedPropertySet}, so
 * in general this can form a tree.)
 *
 * <p>
 * This is useful for JAX-WS because the properties we expose to the application
 * are contributed by different pieces, and therefore we'd like each of them
 * to have a separate {@link PropertySet} implementation that backs up
 * the properties. For example, this allows FastInfoset to expose its
 * set of properties to {@link RequestContext} by using a strongly-typed fields.
 *
 * <p>
 * This is also useful for a client-side transport to expose a bunch of properties
 * into {@link ResponseContext}. It simply needs to create a {@link PropertySet}
 * object with methods for each property it wants to expose, and then add that
 * {@link PropertySet} to {@link Packet}. This allows property values to be
 * lazily computed (when actually asked by users), thus improving the performance
 * of the typical case where property values are not asked.
 *
 * <p>
 * A similar benefit applies on the server-side, for a transport to expose
 * a bunch of properties to {@link WebServiceContext}.
 *
 * <p>
 * To achieve these benefits, access to {@link DistributedPropertySet} is slower
 * compared to {@link PropertySet} (such as get/set), while adding a satellite
 * object is relatively fast.
 *
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 */
public interface DistributedPropertySet extends com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message.PropertySet {

    public @Nullable <T extends com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message.PropertySet> T getSatellite(Class<T> satelliteClass);

    public void addSatellite(com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message.PropertySet satellite);

    public void addSatellite(Class keyClass, com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message.PropertySet satellite);

    public void removeSatellite(com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message.PropertySet satellite);

    public void copySatelliteInto(com.sun.xml.internal.org.jvnet.ws.message.MessageContext r);
}