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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed 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 android.hardware.media.c2@1.0;
+
+import IConfigurable;
+
+/**
+ * Component interface object. This object contains all of the configurations of
+ * a potential or actual component. It can be created and used independently of
+ * an actual Codec2 component to query supported parameters for various
+ * component settings, and configurations for a potential component.
+ *
+ * An actual component exposes this interface via IComponent::getInterface().
+ */
+interface IComponentInterface {
+    /**
+     * Returns the @ref IConfigurable instance associated to this component
+     * interface.
+     *
+     * @return configurable `IConfigurable` instance. This must not be null.
+     */
+    getConfigurable() generates (IConfigurable configurable);
+};
+