/*
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* JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source
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* Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated
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* full listing of individual contributors.
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* This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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* under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
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* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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* Lesser General Public License for more details.
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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package org.jbpm.pvm.internal.type;
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import java.io.Serializable;
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import org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model.ScopeInstanceImpl;
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/**
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* @author Tom Baeyens
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*/
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public interface Converter extends Serializable {
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/**
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* is true if this converter supports the given type, false otherwise.
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*/
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boolean supports(Object value, ScopeInstanceImpl scopeInstance, Variable variable);
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/**
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* converts a given object to its persistable format.
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*/
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Object convert(Object o, ScopeInstanceImpl scopeInstance, Variable variable);
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/**
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* reverts a persisted object to its original formResourceName.
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*/
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Object revert(Object o, ScopeInstanceImpl scopeInstance, Variable variable);
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}
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