1 /**
2 * Copyright (c) 2008-2012, 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 public Node representData(Object data);
36 }