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The MongoDB Java Driver uber-artifact, containing the legacy driver, the mongodb-driver, mongodb-driver-core, and bson

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/*
 * Copyright 2008-present MongoDB, Inc.
 *
 * 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
 *
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 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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package org.bson.conversions;

import org.bson.BsonDocument;
import org.bson.codecs.configuration.CodecRegistry;

/**
 * An interface for types that are able to render themselves into a {@code BsonDocument}.
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface Bson {
    /**
     * Render the filter into a BsonDocument.
     *
     * @param documentClass the document class in scope for the collection.  This parameter may be ignored, but it may be used to alter
     *                      the structure of the returned {@code BsonDocument} based on some knowledge of the document class.
     * @param codecRegistry the codec registry.  This parameter may be ignored, but it may be used to look up {@code Codec} instances for
     *                      the document class or any other related class.
     * @param  the type of the document class
     * @return the BsonDocument
     */
     BsonDocument toBsonDocument(Class documentClass, CodecRegistry codecRegistry);
}