JOntProcessor.java

/*
 *
 * YAQP - Yet Another QSAR Project:
 * Machine Learning algorithms designed for the prediction of toxicological
 * features of chemical compounds become available on the Web. Yaqp is developed
 * under OpenTox (http://opentox.org) which is an FP7-funded EU research project.
 * This project was developed at the Automatic Control Lab in the Chemical Engineering
 * School of National Technical University of Athens. Please read README for more
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 * Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Pantelis Sopasakis & Charalampos Chomenides
 *
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 */

package org.opentox.ontology.interfaces;

import org.opentox.ontology.exceptions.YaqpOntException;

/**
 * Interface for a generic ontological processor. The processor <code>converts</code>
 * its input to a specified Output.
 * @author Pantelis Sopasakis
 * @author Charalampos Chomenides
 *
 * @param <Input> Input Type.
 * @param <Output> Conversion Target Datatype.
 */
public interface JOntProcessor<Input , Output> {

    /**
     *
     * Converts the input data to the requested output.
     * @param data Input data to be converted.
     * @return The input data converted to some other data type.
     * @throws YaqpOntException in case the conversion is not feasible or some
     * error occurs.
     */
    Output convert(Input data) throws YaqpOntException;
}