ExporterDescription.java

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 * Copyright 2011-2017 Asakusa Framework Team.
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package com.asakusafw.vocabulary.external;

/**
 * An abstract super interface for describing processing details of <em>export operations</em>
 * (storing data to external components). Each sub-class must satisfy the following rules:
 * <ul>
 * <li> declared as {@code public} </li>
 * <li> NOT declared as {@code abstract} </li>
 * <li> without any type parameter declarations </li>
 * <li> with a public zero-parameter constructor (or no explicit constructors) </li>
 * </ul>
 */
public interface ExporterDescription {

    /**
     * Returns the data model class of exporting data.
     * @return the data model class of exporting data
     */
    Class<?> getModelType();
}