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Benchmark suite of XStream.

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package com.thoughtworks.xstream.tools.benchmark;

/**
 * Provides a target object to use in the metric. This could be a very small object or a large
 * complicated graph.
 *
 * Also used to test if the object is equal to another instance (as some object's don't provide
 * sensible equals() methods.
 *  
 * @author Joe Walnes
 * @see Harness
 */
public interface Target {

    /**
     * The target to use in the metric.
     */
    Object target();

    /**
     * Check whether the object for this target is equal to another one.
     */
    boolean isEqual(Object other);

}