Aspects can get information from their base rule.

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+// Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+//
+// 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 com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis;
+
+import com.google.devtools.build.lib.packages.AspectParameters;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * Wrapper around {@link ConfiguredAspectFactory} class and {@link AspectParameters}. Aspects are
+ * created with help of aspect factory instances and parameters are used to configure them, so we
+ * have to keep them together. 
+ */
+public final class AspectWithParameters {
+  // TODO(bazel-team): class objects are not really hashable or comparable for equality other than
+  // by reference. We should identify the aspect here in a way that does not rely on comparison
+  // by reference so that keys can be serialized and deserialized properly.
+  private final Class<? extends ConfiguredAspectFactory> aspectFactory;
+  private final AspectParameters parameters;
+
+  public AspectWithParameters(
+      Class<? extends ConfiguredAspectFactory> aspect, AspectParameters parameters) {
+    this.aspectFactory = aspect;
+    this.parameters = parameters;
+  }
+
+  public AspectWithParameters(Class<? extends ConfiguredAspectFactory> aspect) {
+    this.aspectFactory = aspect;
+    this.parameters = AspectParameters.EMPTY;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the aspectFactory required for building the aspect.
+   */
+  public Class<? extends ConfiguredAspectFactory> getAspectFactory() {
+    return aspectFactory;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns parameters for evaluation of the aspect.
+   */
+  public AspectParameters getParameters() {
+    return parameters;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean equals(Object other) {
+    if (this == other) {
+      return true;
+    }
+    if (!(other instanceof AspectWithParameters)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    AspectWithParameters that = (AspectWithParameters) other;
+    return Objects.equals(this.aspectFactory, that.aspectFactory) 
+        && Objects.equals(this.parameters, that.parameters);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int hashCode() {
+    return Objects.hash(aspectFactory, parameters);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return String.format("AspectWithParameters %s(%s)", aspectFactory, parameters);
+  }
+}