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package org.springframework.security.access.expression;

import org.springframework.aop.framework.AopInfrastructureBean;
import org.springframework.expression.EvaluationContext;
import org.springframework.expression.ExpressionParser;
import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;

/**
 * Facade which isolates Spring Security's requirements for evaluating security
 * expressions from the implementation of the underlying expression objects
 *
 * @author Luke Taylor
 * @since 3.1
 */
public interface SecurityExpressionHandler<T> extends AopInfrastructureBean {
	/**
	 * @return an expression parser for the expressions used by the implementation.
	 */
	ExpressionParser getExpressionParser();

	/**
	 * Provides an evaluation context in which to evaluate security expressions for the
	 * invocation type.
	 */
	EvaluationContext createEvaluationContext(Authentication authentication, T invocation);
}
