/*
* Copyright (c) 2012 Diamond Light Source Ltd.
*
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*/
package uk.ac.diamond.scisoft.analysis.rpc.flattening;
/**
* Implementations can "flatten" themselves by implementing this interface.
*
* @see IFlattener
*/
public interface IFlattens {
/**
* Return the flattened form of this object, possibly using rootFlattener to flatten any contained objects.
*
* @param rootFlattener
* @return the flattened form of this object
*/
public Object flatten(IRootFlattener rootFlattener);
}