1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1 5 * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a 6 * copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 11 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 12 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, 13 * either express or implied. See the License for the specific 14 * language governing permissions and limitations under the 15 * License. 16 */ 17 package org.alfresco.repo.importer; 18 19 import java.io.Reader; 20 21 22 /** 23 * This interface represents the contract between the importer service and a 24 * parser (which is responsible for parsing the input stream and extracting 25 * node descriptions). 26 * 27 * The parser interacts with the passed importer to import nodes into the 28 * Repository. 29 * 30 * @author David Caruana 31 */ 32 public interface Parser 33 { 34 /** 35 * Parse nodes from specified input stream and import via the provided importer 36 * 37 * @param viewReader 38 * @param importer 39 */ 40 public void parse(Reader viewReader, Importer importer); 41 42 } 43