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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.policy;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * A policy subject is an entity in the assembly with which a policy can be
+ * associated.
+ * 
+ * This default extension provides a mechanism of associating default intents
+ * with a policy subject so that the framework will take default intents 
+ * into account if no intents are specified by the user. 
+ * 
+ * Default intents are mainly applicable when an artifact defines mayProvides
+ * intents but the user specified no intents
+ */
+public interface DefaultingPolicySubject extends PolicySubject {
+    
+    /**
+     * Default intents are mainly applicable when an
+     * artifact defines mayProvides intents but the 
+     * user specified no intents. In some cases the
+     * artifact will implement a default intent so 
+     * this collection provides the information for the
+     * framework to determine what those defaults are
+     * 
+     * @return A list of default intent records
+     */
+    List<DefaultIntent> getDefaultIntents();
+}