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package com.google.gwt.uibinder.client;
/**
* Interface implemented by classes that generate DOM or Widget structures from
* ui.xml template files, and which inject portions of the generated UI into the
* fields of an owner.
* <p>
* The generated UiBinder implementation will be based on an xml file resource
* in the same package as the owner class, with the same name and a "ui.xml"
* suffix. For example, a UI owned by class {@code bar.baz.Foo} will be sought
* in {@code /bar/baz/Foo.ui.xml}. (To use a different template file, put the
* {@link UiTemplate} annotation on your UiBinder interface declaration to point
* the code generator at it.)
*
* @param <U> The type of the root object of the generated UI, typically a
* subclass of {@link com.google.gwt.dom.client.Element Element} or
* {@link com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.UIObject UiObject}
* @param <O> The type of the object that will own the generated UI
*/
public interface UiBinder<U, O> {
/**
* Creates and returns the root object of the UI, and fills any fields of owner
* tagged with {@link UiField}.
*
* @param owner the object whose {@literal @}UiField needs will be filled
*/
U createAndBindUi(O owner);
}