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The Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA), a machine learning workbench. This version represents the developer version, the "bleeding edge" of development, you could say. New functionality gets added to this version.

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/*
 *    DataCollector.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2015 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.knowledgeflow.steps;

import weka.core.WekaException;

/**
 * Auxiliary interface for steps that collect data results of some type - e.g.
 * visualization steps that collect results.
 *
 * @author Mark Hall (mhall{[at]}pentaho{[dot]}com)
 * @version $Revision: $
 */
public interface DataCollector {

  /**
   * Get the data that this collector has collected
   *
   * @return the data collected by this collector
   */
  public Object retrieveData();

  /**
   * Set the data for this collector
   *
   * @param data the data to set
   * @throws WekaException if there is a problem restoring data
   */
  public void restoreData(Object data) throws WekaException;
}