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1   /* Transformer
2   *
3   * $Id: Transformer.java 4671 2006-09-26 23:47:15Z paul_jack $
4   *
5   * Created on September 26, 2006
6   *
7   * Copyright (C) 2006 Internet Archive.
8   *
9   * This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
10  *
11  * Heritrix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12  * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by
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15  *
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19  * GNU Lesser Public License for more details.
20  *
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24  */
25  package org.archive.crawler.util;
26  
27  
28  /***
29   * Transforms objects from one thing into another.
30   * 
31   * @author pjack
32   *
33   * @param <Original>  the type of the original objects
34   * @param <Transformed>  the type of the transformed objects
35   */
36  public interface Transformer<Original,Transformed> {
37  
38      /***
39       * Transforms the given object.
40       * 
41       * @param o  the object to transform
42       * @return  the transformed object
43       */
44      Transformed transform(Original o);
45      
46  }