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/**
 * Peregrine is an indexing engine that can recognize concepts in human readable
 * text, based on a database (thesaurus) of known terms.
 *
 * Copyright 2005-2011 Erasmus University Medical Centre (EMC)
 * Copyright 2009-2011 Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC)
 *
 * Contact us at: [email protected]
 *
 * This file is part of Peregrine. Peregrine is free software: you can
 * redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General
 * Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more
 * details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 * along with this program. If not, see .
 */
package org.erasmusmc.data_mining.ontology.api;

/**
 * The interface defines a callback handler for processing an ontology.
 *
 * @param  The type of object this handler can process.
 */
public interface CallbackHandler {

    /**
     * Callback handler to process the loading of the given object in the
     * in-memory ontology.
     *
     * @param object the object to process, this must be a fully populated
     * instance.
     *
     * @return true if the processing should continue with the next object or
     * false if processing should be aborted.
     */
    boolean process(T object);
}