BoundedContextNameMappingStrategy.java

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package org.contextmapper.discovery.strategies.names;

/**
 * Interface for name mapping strategies. Used in {@link org.contextmapper.discovery.ContextMapDiscoverer} to provide
 * different approaches to lookup discovered Bounded Contexts (relationship discovering strategies may search for
 * Bounded Contexts with different namings).
 *
 * @author Stefan Kapferer
 */
public interface BoundedContextNameMappingStrategy {

    /**
     * Maps a Bounded Context name to another one identifying the same context.
     *
     * @param name the given Bounded Context name
     * @return the other Bounded Context name used for the same context
     */
    String mapBoundedContextName(String name);

}