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+/*

+ * Copyright 2006 Amazon Technologies, Inc. or its affiliates.

+ * Amazon, Amazon.com and Carbonado are trademarks or registered trademarks

+ * of Amazon Technologies, Inc. or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

+ *

+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at

+ *

+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

+ *

+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

+ * limitations under the License.

+ */

+

+package com.amazon.carbonado.util;

+

+import java.io.IOException;

+

+/**

+ * Interface that supports an alternate way of providing a string representation

+ * for an object.

+ *

+ * @author Brian S O'Neill

+ */

+public interface Appender {

+    /**

+     * Append the string representation of this object to the given Appendable.

+     *

+     * @param appendable Appendable object to receive string representation

+     * @throws IOException if thrown from given Appendable

+     * @throws NullPointerException if appendable is null

+     */

+    void appendTo(Appendable appendable) throws IOException;

+}