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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Google 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
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.google.gson.internal;
+
+/**
+ * Defines a generic object construction factory. The purpose of this class
+ * is to construct a default instance of a class that can be used for object
+ * navigation while deserialization from its JSON representation.
+ *
+ * @author Inderjeet Singh
+ * @author Joel Leitch
+ */
+public interface ObjectConstructor<T> {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a new instance.
+ */
+ public T construct();
+}
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