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package org.bson;

/**
 * Transforms objects that can be converted to BSON into other Java types, and vice versa.
 */
public interface Transformer {
    /**
     * Turns the {@code objectToTransform} into some other {@code Object}. This can either be turning a simple BSON-friendly object into a
     * different Java type, or it can be turning a Java type that can't automatically be converted into BSON into something that can.
     *
     * @param objectToTransform the object that needs to be transformed.
     * @return the new transformed object.
     */
    Object transform(Object objectToTransform);
}