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/**
* Copyright (C) 2015 Typesafe Inc.
*/
package com.typesafe.config.parser;
/**
* A node in the syntax tree for a HOCON or JSON document.
*
*
* Note: at present there is no way to obtain an instance of this interface, so
* please ignore it. A future release will make syntax tree nodes available in
* the public API. If you are interested in working on it, please see: https://github.com/lightbend/config/issues/300
*
*
* Because this object is immutable, it is safe to use from multiple threads and
* there's no need for "defensive copies."
*
*
* Do not implement interface {@code ConfigNode}; it should only be
* implemented by the config library. Arbitrary implementations will not work
* because the library internals assume a specific concrete implementation.
* Also, this interface is likely to grow new methods over time, so third-party
* implementations will break.
*/
public interface ConfigNode {
/**
* The original text of the input which was used to form this particular
* node.
*
* @return the original text used to form this node as a String
*/
public String render();
}