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+/*
+ * Copyright 2018 Google
+ *
+ * Licensed 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.
+ */
+#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
+
+#import "FIRComponentType.h"
+
+NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
+
+/// A type-safe macro to retrieve a component from a container. This should be used to retrieve
+/// components instead of using the container directly.
+#define FIR_COMPONENT(type, container) \
+ [FIRComponentType<id<type>> instanceForProtocol:@protocol(type) inContainer:container]
+
+@class FIRApp;
+
+/// A container that holds different components that are registered via the
+/// `registerAsComponentRegistrant:` call. These classes should conform to `FIRComponentRegistrant`
+/// in order to properly register components for Core.
+NS_SWIFT_NAME(FirebaseComponentContainer)
+@interface FIRComponentContainer : NSObject
+
+/// A weak reference to the app that an instance of the container belongs to.
+@property(nonatomic, weak, readonly) FIRApp *app;
+
+/// Unavailable. Use the `container` property on `FIRApp`.
+- (instancetype)init NS_UNAVAILABLE;
+
+/// Register a class to provide components for the interoperability system. The class should conform
+/// to `FIRComponentRegistrant` and provide an array of `FIRComponent` objects.
++ (void)registerAsComponentRegistrant:(Class)klass;
+
+@end
+
+NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END