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/*
 * Copyright 2012 Kevin Seim
 * 
 * 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 org.beanio.stream;

/**
 * Interface for unmarshalling a single record.
 * 
 * The class used to represent a record is specific to the
 * format of a record.  For example, a delimited record marshaller may use 
 * Stringp[].
 * 
 * @author Kevin Seim
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface RecordUnmarshaller {

    /**
     * Unmarshals a single record.
     * @param text the record text to unmarshal
     * @return the unmarshalled record object
     * @throws RecordIOException if the record is malformed and cannot be parsed
     */
    public Object unmarshal(String text) throws RecordIOException;
    
}