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Doclet for the JavaDoc tool that generates UML diagrams from the code.

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/*
 * Copyright 2016-2019 Talsma ICT
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package nl.talsmasoftware.umldoclet.rendering;

/**
 * Definition of a 'renderer' object that can render itself to a given output.
 *
 * @author Sjoerd Talsma
 */
public interface Renderer {

    /**
     * Renders this object to the given {@code output}.
     *
     * @param     The output type (must be appendable).
     * @param output The output to render this object to.
     * @return A reference to the output for method chaining purposes.
     */
     A writeTo(A output);

}