[unical.git] / gson / com / google / gson / internal / ObjectConstructor.java

/*
 * 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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cfd903b6 MG	1	/*
	2	* Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
	3	*
	4	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	5	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	6	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	7	*
	8	* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	9	*
	10	* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
	11	* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
	12	* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
	13	* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
	14	* limitations under the License.
	15	*/
	16
	17	package com.google.gson.internal;
	18
	19	/**
	20	* Defines a generic object construction factory. The purpose of this class
	21	* is to construct a default instance of a class that can be used for object
	22	* navigation while deserialization from its JSON representation.
	23	*
	24	* @author Inderjeet Singh
	25	* @author Joel Leitch
	26	*/
	27	public interface ObjectConstructor<T> {
	28
	29	/**
	30	* Returns a new instance.
	31	*/
	32	public T construct();
	33	}