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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Sonatype, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Sonatype, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.aether.graph;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * A filter to include/exclude dependency nodes during other operations.
+ */
+public interface DependencyFilter
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Indicates whether the specified dependency node shall be included or excluded.
+ *
+ * @param node The dependency node to filter, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @param parents The (read-only) chain of parent nodes that leads to the node to be filtered, must not be
+ * {@code null}. Iterating this (possibly empty) list walks up the dependency graph towards the root
+ * node, i.e. the immediate parent node (if any) is the first node in the list. The size of the list also
+ * denotes the zero-based depth of the filtered node.
+ * @return {@code true} to include the dependency node, {@code false} to exclude it.
+ */
+ boolean accept( DependencyNode node, List<DependencyNode> parents );
+
+}