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package org.apache.wicket.markup.resolver;

import org.apache.wicket.Component;
import org.apache.wicket.MarkupContainer;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.ComponentTag;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.MarkupStream;
import org.apache.wicket.settings.PageSettings;
import org.apache.wicket.util.io.IClusterable;

/**
 * IComponentResolvers are responsible for mapping component names to Wicket components. Resolvers
 * are first looked up in a component's hierarchy before falling back to a list of
 * IComponentResolvers maintained in {@link PageSettings}.
 * 
 * NOTE: implementations for this interface must be thread-safe!
 * 
 * @see ComponentResolvers
 * 
 * @author Juergen Donnerstag
 */
public interface IComponentResolver extends IClusterable {
    /**
     * Try to resolve a component.
     * 
     * @param container
     *            The container parsing its markup
     * @param markupStream
     *            The current markupStream
     * @param tag
     *            The current component tag while parsing the markup
     * @return component or {@code null} if not found
     */
    Component resolve(final MarkupContainer container, final MarkupStream markupStream, final ComponentTag tag);
}