1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc. 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 com.google.gson.internal; 18 19 /** 20 * Defines a generic object construction factory. The purpose of this class 21 * is to construct a default instance of a class that can be used for object 22 * navigation while deserialization from its JSON representation. 23 * 24 * @author Inderjeet Singh 25 * @author Joel Leitch 26 */ 27 public interface ObjectConstructor<T> { 28 29 /** 30 * Returns a new instance. 31 */ construct()32 public T construct(); 33 }