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-/*
- * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- * 
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * 
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */ 
-
-package org.apache.commons.codec;
-
-/**
- * <p>Provides the highest level of abstraction for Decoders.
- * This is the sister interface of {@link Encoder}.  All
- * Decoders implement this common generic interface.</p>
- * 
- * <p>Allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Decoder 
- * implementation in the codec package.</p>
- * 
- * <p>One of the two interfaces at the center of the codec package.</p>
- * 
- * @author Apache Software Foundation
- * @version $Id: Decoder.java,v 1.9 2004/02/29 04:08:31 tobrien Exp $
- */
-public interface Decoder {
-
-    /**
-     * Decodes an "encoded" Object and returns a "decoded"
-     * Object.  Note that the implementation of this
-     * interface will try to cast the Object parameter
-     * to the specific type expected by a particular Decoder
-     * implementation.  If a {@link java.lang.ClassCastException} occurs
-     * this decode method will throw a DecoderException.
-     * 
-     * @param pObject an object to "decode"
-     * 
-     * @return a 'decoded" object
-     * 
-     * @throws DecoderException a decoder exception can
-     * be thrown for any number of reasons.  Some good
-     * candidates are that the parameter passed to this
-     * method is null, a param cannot be cast to the
-     * appropriate type for a specific encoder.
-     */
-    Object decode(Object pObject) throws DecoderException;
-}  
-