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   1 /*
   2  * SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only
   3  *
   4  * Copyright (C) 2015 EfficiOS Inc.
   5  * Copyright (C) 2015 Alexandre Montplaisir <alexmonthy@efficios.com>
   6  */
   7
   8 package org.lttng.ust.agent.context;
   9
  10 /**
  11  * Context-retrieving object specified by the application to extract
  12  * application-specific context information, which can then be passed on to the
  13  * Java agents and saved to a trace.
  14  *
  15  * Retriever objects should be registered to the {@link ContextInfoManager} to
  16  * make them available to the LTTng agents.
  17  *
  18  * @author Alexandre Montplaisir
  19  */
  20 public interface IContextInfoRetriever {
  21
  22         /**
  23          * Retrieve a piece of context information from the application, identified
  24          * by a key.
  25          *
  26          * @param key
  27          *            The key identifying the context information
  28          * @return The context information.
  29          */
  30         Object retrieveContextInfo(String key);
  31 }