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package sun.net.ftp;
/**
* This interface describes a parser for the FtpClient class. Such a parser is
* used when listing a remote directory to transform text lines like:
* drwxr-xr-x 1 user01 ftp 512 Jan 29 23:32 prog
* into FtpDirEntry instances.
*
* @see java.net.FtpClient#setFileParser(FtpDirParser)
* @since 1.7
*/
public interface FtpDirParser {
/**
* Takes one line from a directory listing and returns an FtpDirEntry instance
* based on the information contained.
*
* @param line a <code>String</code>, a line sent by the FTP server as a
* result of the LST command.
* @return an <code>FtpDirEntry</code> instance.
* @see java.net.FtpDirEntry
*/
public FtpDirEntry parseLine(String line);
}