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package org.picocontainer.containers;

import org.picocontainer.ComponentAdapter;
import org.picocontainer.PicoContainer;
import org.picocontainer.PicoVisitor;
import org.picocontainer.NameBinding;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;

/**
 * empty pico container serving as recoil damper in situations where you
 * do not like to check whether container reference suplpied to you
 * is null or not
 *
 * @author Konstantin Pribluda
 */
public class EmptyPicoContainer implements PicoContainer, Serializable {

    public Object getComponent(Object componentKeyOrType) {
        return null;
    }

    public <T> T getComponent(Class<T> componentType) {
        return null;
    }

    public <T> T getComponent(Class<T> componentType, Class<? extends Annotation> binding) {
        return null;
    }

    public List getComponents() {
        return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
    }

    public PicoContainer getParent() {
        return null;
    }

    public ComponentAdapter<?> getComponentAdapter(Object componentKey) {
        return null;
    }

    public <T> ComponentAdapter<T> getComponentAdapter(Class<T> componentType, NameBinding componentNameBinding) {
        return null;
    }

    public <T> ComponentAdapter<T> getComponentAdapter(Class<T> componentType, Class<? extends Annotation> binding) {
        return null;
    }

    public Collection<ComponentAdapter<?>> getComponentAdapters() {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    public <T> List<ComponentAdapter<T>> getComponentAdapters(Class<T> componentType) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    public <T> List<ComponentAdapter<T>> getComponentAdapters(Class<T> componentType, Class<? extends Annotation> binding) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    /**
     * we do not have anything to do here. 
     */
    public void accept(PicoVisitor visitor) {
    }

    public <T> List<T> getComponents(Class<T> componentType) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

}