ConstraintProvider (OptaPlanner Javadoc 8.26.0.Final API)

```
public interface ConstraintProvider
```
Used by Constraint Streams' Score calculation. An implementation must be stateless in order to facilitate building a single set of constraints independent of potentially changing constraint weights.

Method Summary

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Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Constraint[]`	`defineConstraints(ConstraintFactory constraintFactory)`	This method is called once to create the constraints.

- Method Detail
  - defineConstraints
```
Constraint[] defineConstraints(ConstraintFactory constraintFactory)
```
    This method is called once to create the constraints. To create a Constraint, start with ConstraintFactory.forEach(Class).
    
    Parameters:
    
    constraintFactory - never null
    
    Returns:
    
    an array of all constraints that could apply. The constraints with a zero ConstraintWeight for a particular problem will be automatically disabled when scoring that problem, to improve performance.