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/* 
Copyright (c) 2010, NHIN Direct Project
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Authors:
   Greg Meyer      [email protected]
 
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package org.nhindirect.policy;

import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Interface defining parsers for a {@link PolicyLexicon}.  Parsers are specific to a lexicon and generate a {@link PolicyExpression} object
 * that is fed into a policy engine {@link Compiler}.
 * 

 * Parser instances should be created using the {@link PolicyLexiconParserFactory} class.
 * @author Greg Meyer
 * @since 1.0
 */
public interface PolicyLexiconParser 
{
	/**
	 * Parsers an expression from an input stream written in the specific lexicon into a {@link PolicyExpression} object.
	 * @param stream An input stream containing the expression written in the specific lexicon.
	 * @return A {@link PolicyExpression} object resulting from parsing the input stream.
	 * @throws PolicyParseException Thrown in the input stream cannot be parsed into a {@link PolicyExpression} object.
	 */
	public PolicyExpression parse(InputStream stream) throws PolicyParseException; 
}