Ptidej-v5.2-master/PADL Creator JavaFile (Eclipse) Tests/data/argouml/trunk/src_new/org/argouml/uml/generator/FileGenerator.java
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package org.argouml.uml.generator;

/** 
 * This class is the interface that tells that a certain generator
 * can generate a file.
 * 
 * @deprecated in 0.23.3 by thn.  Not used in core ArgoUML any more, but
 * may be used by third party code generator modules.
 */
public interface FileGenerator {

    /**
     * The file seperator for this operating system.
     */
    public static final String FILE_SEPARATOR =
	System.getProperty("file.separator");

    /** Generates a file for this classifier.
     * TODO:
     * This will only work for languages that have each node
     * in a separate files (one or more).
     *
     * @param node the node
     * @param path the path
     * @return filename the generated file
     */
    public String generateFile2(Object node, String path);
}
