text: /*=============================================================================
  
   Library: CppMicroServices
  
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   file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
   https://github.com/CppMicroServices/CppMicroServices/COPYRIGHT .
  
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   =============================================================================*/
  
  #ifndef METADATAPARSER_HPP
  #define METADATAPARSER_HPP
  
  #include "ConfigurationMetadata.hpp"
  
  namespace cppmicroservices {
    namespace cmimpl {
      namespace metadata {
  
        /*
         * @brief Represents an abstract metadata parser.
         *
         * Whenever there is a change in the service description JSON file-format:
         *  1. The "version" field in the manifest should be bumped-up by one.
         *  2. A new concrete class that implements the following
         *     interface is implemented, which would contain the logic to parse
         *     that particular change of the manifest file-format.
         *  3. The MetadataParserFactory is changed to create and return
         *     that implementation for the corresponding version of the manifest.
         * This way, because the CM Bundle Extension depends on the
         * following interface instead of any concrete implementation, it
         * supports multiple versions of the manifest.
         */
        class MetadataParser {
        public:
          virtual ~MetadataParser() = default;
  
          /*
           * @brief Parses and returns a vector of the configuration metadata
           * @param anymap An @c AnyMap representation of the configuration properties
           * @returns a vector of parsed @c ConfigurationMetadata
           */
          virtual std::vector<ConfigurationMetadata> ParseAndGetConfigurationMetadata(const AnyMap& anymap) const = 0;
        protected:
          MetadataParser() = default;
        };
      } // metadata
    } // cmimpl
  } // cppmicroservices
  
  #endif //METADATAPARSER_HPP
  