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package org.apache.cassandra.metrics;

import javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException;
import javax.management.ObjectName;

/**
 * Simplified version of {@link Metrics} naming factory paradigm, simply
 * generating {@link ObjectName} and nothing more.
 * 
 * @author calle
 *
 */
public interface MetricNameFactory {
    /**
     * Create a qualified name from given metric name.
     *
     * @param metricName
     *            part of qualified name.
     * @return new String with given metric name.
     * @throws MalformedObjectNameException
     */
    ObjectName createMetricName(String metricName) throws MalformedObjectNameException;
}