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/*
    SpecRunner - Acceptance Test Driven Development Tool
    Copyright (C) 2011-2013  Thiago Santos

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU 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 General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see 
 */
package org.specrunner.objects;

import org.specrunner.util.xom.RowAdapter;

/**
 * Based on object type creates an instance of it, using another row information
 * or not.
 * 
 * @author Thiago Santos
 * 
 */
public interface IObjectCreator {

    /**
     * Creates a instance of the given type.
     * 
     * @param type
     *            The object type.
     * @param row
     *            The row with all informations.
     * @return A new object instance, or null.
     * @throws Exception
     *             On object creation error.
     */
    Object create(Class type, RowAdapter row) throws Exception;
}