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package org.gradle.api.internal.provider;

import org.gradle.api.Transformer;
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.TaskDependencyContainer;
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.TaskDependencyResolveContext;
import org.gradle.api.provider.Provider;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

public interface ProviderInternal<T> extends Provider<T>, TaskDependencyContainer {
    /**
     * Return the upper bound on the type of all values that this provider may produce, if known.
     *
     * This could probably move to the public API.
     */
    @Nullable
    Class<T> getType();

    /**
     * Visits the build dependencies of this provider, if possible.
     * @return true if the dependencies added (possibly none), false if the build dependencies are unknown.
     */
    boolean maybeVisitBuildDependencies(TaskDependencyResolveContext context);

    @Override
    <S> ProviderInternal<S> map(Transformer<? extends S, ? super T> transformer);

    ProviderInternal<T> withFinalValue();
}
