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/*
* Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 XStream Committers.
* All rights reserved.
*
* The software in this package is published under the terms of the BSD
* style license a copy of which has been included with this distribution in
* the LICENSE.txt file.
*
* Created on 15. February 2006 by Mauro Talevi
*/
package com.feilong.lib.xstream.converters;
/**
* ConverterMatcher allows to match converters to classes by
* determining if a given type can be converted by the converter instance.
* ConverterMatcher is the base interface of any converter.
*
* @author Joe Walnes
* @author Jörg Schaible
* @author Mauro Talevi
* @see com.feilong.lib.xstream.converters.Converter
* @see com.feilong.lib.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverter
* @since 1.2
*/
public interface ConverterMatcher{
/**
* Determines whether the converter can marshall a particular type.
*
* @param type
* the Class representing the object type to be converted
*/
boolean canConvert(Class type);
}