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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;
+
+/**
+ * A visitor for nodes of the dependency graph.
+ *
+ * @see DependencyNode#accept(DependencyVisitor)
+ */
+public interface DependencyVisitor
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the visitor of a node visit before its children have been processed.
+ *
+ * @param node The dependency node being visited, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @return {@code true} to visit child nodes of the specified node as well, {@code false} to skip children.
+ */
+ boolean visitEnter( DependencyNode node );
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the visitor of a node visit after its children have been processed. Note that this method is always
+ * invoked regardless whether any children have actually been visited.
+ *
+ * @param node The dependency node being visited, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @return {@code true} to visit siblings nodes of the specified node as well, {@code false} to skip siblings.
+ */
+ boolean visitLeave( DependencyNode node );
+
+}