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package studio.raptor.ddal.common.builder;
/**
*
* The Builder interface is designed to designate a class as a builder
* object in the Builder design pattern. Builders are capable of creating and
* configuring objects or results that normally take multiple steps to construct
* or are very complex to derive.
*
*
*
* @param the type of object that the builder will construct or compute.
* @since 3.0.0
*/
public interface Builder {
/**
* Returns a reference to the object being constructed or result being
* calculated by the builder.
*
* @return the object constructed or result calculated by the builder.
*/
T build();
}