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 }