+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This interface is used to reflect contents of {@link AttributeSource} or {@link AttributeImpl}.
+ */
+public interface AttributeReflector {
+
+ /**
+ * This method gets called for every property in an {@link AttributeImpl}/{@link AttributeSource}
+ * passing the class name of the {@link Attribute}, a key and the actual value.
+ * E.g., an invocation of {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttributeImpl#reflectWith}
+ * would call this method once using {@code org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute.class}
+ * as attribute class, {@code "term"} as key and the actual value as a String.
+ */
+ public void reflect(Class<? extends Attribute> attClass, String key, Object value);
+
+}