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/*
 Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

 This file is part of lightblue.

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see .
 */
package com.redhat.lightblue.metadata.parser;

/**
 * Common interface for parsers for metadata extensions.
 *
 * The N refers to the type of the tree node in the document object
 * tree. The parameter T is the object returned once a node of type
 * N is parsed.
 */
public interface Parser {

    /**
     * Return an object representation of the node
     */
    T parse(String name, MetadataParser p, N node);

    /**
     * Intialize the empty node emptyNode with the contents of
     * object
     */
    void convert(MetadataParser p, N emptyNode, T object);

}