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 */ representData(Object data)35 Node representData(Object data); 36 } 37