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      1 /**
      2  * Copyright (c) 2008, http://www.snakeyaml.org
      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 package org.yaml.snakeyaml.representer;
     17 
     18 import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.Node;
     19 
     20 /**
     21  * Create a Node Graph out of the provided Native Data Structure (Java
     22  * instance).
     23  *
     24  * @see <a href="http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/#id859109">Chapter 3. Processing YAML
     25  *      Information</a>
     26  */
     27 public interface Represent {
     28     /**
     29      * Create a Node
     30      *
     31      * @param data
     32      *            the instance to represent
     33      * @return Node to dump
     34      */
     35     Node representData(Object data);
     36 }
     37