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1   /**
2    * Copyright (c) 2008-2011, 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  
17  package org.yaml.snakeyaml.representer;
18  
19  import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.Node;
20  
21  /**
22   * Create a Node Graph out of the provided Native Data Structure (Java
23   * instance).
24   * 
25   * @see http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/#id859109
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      public Node representData(Object data);
36  }