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package info.magnolia.content2bean;

import info.magnolia.cms.core.Content;
import info.magnolia.objectfactory.ComponentProvider;
import info.magnolia.objectfactory.Components;


/**
 * Transforms nodes to beans or maps. The transformer is use to resolve classes or to instantiate beans.
 *
 * @deprecated since 4.5, use {@link Content2Bean}.
 *
 * @author philipp
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface Content2BeanProcessor {

    /**
     * Transforms the node to a bean using the passed transformer and component provider.
     */
    public Object toBean(Content node, boolean recursive, final Content2BeanTransformer transformer, ComponentProvider componentProvider)
        throws Content2BeanException;

    /**
     * Similar to <code>toBean()</code> but uses a passed bean as the root bean.
     */
    public Object setProperties(final Object bean, Content node, boolean recursive, final Content2BeanTransformer transformer, ComponentProvider componentProvider) throws Content2BeanException;

    /**
     * Creates a singleton instance of the content2bean processor.
     * @deprecated since 4.5, we should use IoC. However, we'll leave the processor as is for now.
     */
    class Factory {
        public static Content2BeanProcessor getProcessor() {
            return Components.getSingleton(Content2BeanProcessor.class);
        }
    }

}