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1   /*
2    * Copyright (C) 2003-2006 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;
23  
24  import java.io.IOException;
25  
26  /***
27   * Interface for a processor that operates on an input argument. Non-abstract
28   * implementations of this interface are loaded via
29   * {@link de.fu_berlin.ties.util.Util#createObject(Class, String[])} and thus
30   * must provide a suitable constructor. Otherwise reflection-based instantiation
31   * will fail.
32   *
33   * @author Christian Siefkes
34   * @version $Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2006/10/21 16:03:52 $, $Author: siefkes $
35   */
36  public interface Processor {
37  
38      /***
39       * Processes an input argument.
40       *
41       * @param input the input to process
42       * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
43       * @throws ProcessingException if an error occurs during processing
44       */
45      void process(final String input) throws IOException, ProcessingException;
46  
47  }