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 * 
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package org.codehaus.plexus.metadata;

import java.util.List;

import org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.ComponentDescriptor;

/**
 * An abstraction to allow pluggable {@link ComponentDescriptor} extraction to be dropped.
 * 
 * @version $Id: ComponentDescriptorExtractor.java 7966 2008-12-25 15:25:22Z bentmann $
 */
public interface ComponentDescriptorExtractor
{
    String ROLE = ComponentDescriptorExtractor.class.getName();

    List<ComponentDescriptor<?>> extract( MetadataGenerationRequest configuration, ComponentDescriptor<?>[] roleDefaults )
        throws Exception;
}
