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1   /*
2    * Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Christian Siefkes <christian@siefkes.net>.
3    * Development of this software is supported by the German Research Society,
4    * Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems
5    * (DFG grant no. GRK 316).
6    *
7    * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8    * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9    * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10   * (at your option) any later version.
11   *
12   * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13   * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14   * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15   * GNU General Public License for more details.
16   *
17   * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18   * along with this program; if not, visit
19   * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html or write to the Free Software
20   * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
21   */
22  package de.fu_berlin.ties.io;
23  
24  /***
25   * Classes implementing this interface contain multiple
26   * {@link de.fu_berlin.ties.io.Storable} objects and support serialization of
27   * these objects in a human-readable format, by storing them in a
28   * {@link de.fu_berlin.ties.io.FieldContainer}.
29   *
30   * @author Christian Siefkes
31   * @version $Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2006/10/21 16:04:22 $, $Author: siefkes $
32   */
33  public interface StorableContainer {
34  
35      /***
36       * Adds all relevant {@link Storable} items in this object to a field
37       * container for serialization.
38       *
39       * @param fContainer the field container to fill
40       */
41      void storeEntries(final FieldContainer fContainer);
42  
43  }