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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.expression;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

import org.semanticweb.owlapi.io.OWLParserException;

/**
 * A general purpose interface which provides the ability to parse some
 * expression into some kind of object.
 * 
 * @param 
 *        the kind of parsed expression
 * @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health
 *         Informatics Group
 * @since 2.2.0
 */
public interface OWLExpressionParser {

    /**
     * @param entityChecker
     *        the entity checker to use
     */
    void setOWLEntityChecker(@Nonnull OWLEntityChecker entityChecker);

    /**
     * @param expression
     *        the expression to parse
     * @return the parsed expression
     * @throws OWLParserException
     *         parse exception
     */
    @Nonnull
    O parse(@Nonnull String expression);
}