PrettyPrintable.java

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package org.openanzo.rdf.utils;

/**
 * Pretty print interface for types to provide a verbose string representation that is to verbose, to expensive to compute, or otherwise inappropriate for
 * toString().
 * 
 * @author Joe Betz <jpbetz@cambridgesemantics.com>
 * 
 */
public interface PrettyPrintable {
    /**
     * Write verbose string representation to the output builder
     * 
     * @param output
     *            output builder to which data is written
     */
    public void prettyPrint(StringBuilder output);
}