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Builds the hapi fhir base. Requires Common lang, commons-text, and guava be built first.

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package ca.uhn.fhir.narrative;

import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBaseResource;

public interface INarrativeGenerator {

	/**
	 * Generate any narratives for the given resource that have applicable
	 * templates, and populates the appropriate field(s). This almost always means
	 * the Resource.text.narrative field, but for some resource types
	 * it can mean other fields (e.g. Composition.
	 *
	 * @return Returns true if a narrative was actually generated
	 */
	boolean populateResourceNarrative(FhirContext theFhirContext, IBaseResource theResource);

	/**
	 * Generates the narrative for the given resource and returns it as a string
	 */
	String generateResourceNarrative(FhirContext theFhirContext, IBaseResource theResource);
}