gson/com/google/gson/internal/ObjectConstructor.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
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   4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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  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 }