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    34    Copyright 2009-2013 Attila Szegedi

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    83 

    84 package jdk.internal.dynalink.linker;

    85 

    86 import jdk.internal.dynalink.linker.support.CompositeTypeBasedGuardingDynamicLinker;

    87 

    88 /**

    89  * A guarding dynamic linker that can determine whether it can link the call site solely based on the type of the first

    90  * argument at linking invocation time. (The first argument is usually the receiver). Most language-specific

    91  * linkers will fall into this category, as they recognize their native objects as Java objects of classes implementing

    92  * a specific language-native interface or superclass. The linker mechanism can optimize the dispatch for these linkers,

    93  * see {@link CompositeTypeBasedGuardingDynamicLinker}.

    94  */

    95 public interface TypeBasedGuardingDynamicLinker extends GuardingDynamicLinker {

    96     /**

    97      * Returns true if the linker can link an invocation where the first argument (receiver) is of the specified type.

    98      *

    99      * @param type the type to link

   100      * @return true if the linker can link calls for the receiver type, or false otherwise.

   101      */

   102     public boolean canLinkType(Class<?> type);

   103 }