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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  }