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package org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.GenericBeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.core.type.AnnotationMetadata;
import org.springframework.core.type.StandardAnnotationMetadata;

/**
 * Extension of the {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.support.GenericBeanDefinition}
 * class, adding support for annotation metadata exposed through the
 * {@link AnnotatedBeanDefinition} interface.
 *
 * <p>This GenericBeanDefinition variant is mainly useful for testing code that expects
 * to operate on an AnnotatedBeanDefinition, for example strategy implementations
 * in Spring's component scanning support (where the default definition class is
 * {@link org.springframework.context.annotation.ScannedGenericBeanDefinition},
 * which also implements the AnnotatedBeanDefinition interface).
 *
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 2.5
 * @see AnnotatedBeanDefinition#getMetadata()
 * @see org.springframework.core.type.StandardAnnotationMetadata
 */
public class AnnotatedGenericBeanDefinition extends GenericBeanDefinition implements AnnotatedBeanDefinition {

	private final AnnotationMetadata annotationMetadata;


	/**
	 * Create a new AnnotatedGenericBeanDefinition for the given bean class.
	 * @param beanClass the loaded bean class
	 */
	public AnnotatedGenericBeanDefinition(Class beanClass) {
		setBeanClass(beanClass);
		this.annotationMetadata = new StandardAnnotationMetadata(beanClass);
	}


	public final AnnotationMetadata getMetadata() {
		 return this.annotationMetadata;
	}

}
