1 /**
2  * Copyright 2006-2017 the original author or authors.
3  *
4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7  *
8  *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9  *
10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14  * limitations under the License.
15  */
16 package org.objenesis;
17 
18 import org.objenesis.instantiator.ObjectInstantiator;
19 
20 /**
21  * Common interface to all kind of Objenesis objects
22  *
23  * @author Henri Tremblay
24  */
25 public interface Objenesis {
26 
27    /**
28     * Will create a new object without any constructor being called
29     *
30     * @param <T> Type instantiated
31     * @param clazz Class to instantiate
32     * @return New instance of clazz
33     */
newInstance(Class<T> clazz)34    <T> T newInstance(Class<T> clazz);
35 
36    /**
37     * Will pick the best instantiator for the provided class. If you need to create a lot of
38     * instances from the same class, it is way more efficient to create them from the same
39     * ObjectInstantiator than calling {@link #newInstance(Class)}.
40     *
41     * @param <T> Type to instantiate
42     * @param clazz Class to instantiate
43     * @return Instantiator dedicated to the class
44     */
getInstantiatorOf(Class<T> clazz)45    <T> ObjectInstantiator<T> getInstantiatorOf(Class<T> clazz);
46 }
47