/*
* GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
* http://geotools.org
*
* (C) 2002-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* version 2.1 of the License.
*
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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*/
package org.geotools.data.wfs.protocol.wfs;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.geotools.data.wfs.v1_1_0.WFSNGDataStore;
/**
* A simple interface to parse the response of a WFS request.
*
* @author Gabriel Roldan (OpenGeo)
* @version $Id: WFSResponseParser.java 31823 2008-11-11 16:11:49Z groldan $
* @since 2.6
*
*
* @source $URL: http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/modules/unsupported/wfs-ng/src/main/java/org/geotools/data/wfs/protocol/wfs/WFSResponseParser.java $
* @see WFSResponseParserFactory
* @see WFSResponse
*/
public interface WFSResponseParser {
/**
* Produces a parsed object from the WFS response stream.
* <p>
* The kind of parsed object depends on the actual response contents and what the specific
* parser produces for it.
* </p>
*
* @param wfs the datastore that issued the request and obtained the given response
* @param response the handle to the WFS response contents
* @return the implementation dependent object that's parsed from the WFS response contents
* @throws IOException if an exception is produced while parsing the response
*/
Object parse(WFSNGDataStore wfs, WFSResponse response) throws IOException;
}