/*
 * This file is part of ELKI:
 * Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2022
 * ELKI Development Team
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 */
package elki.datasource.parser;

import java.io.InputStream;

import elki.datasource.bundle.MultipleObjectsBundle;

/**
 * A Parser shall provide a ParsingResult by parsing an InputStream.
 * 
 * @author Arthur Zimek
 * @since 0.1
 * 
 * @opt nodefillcolor LemonChiffon
 * @assoc - - - InputStream
 * @navhas - create - MultipleObjectsBundle
 */
public interface Parser {
  /**
   * Returns a list of the objects parsed from the specified input stream.
   * 
   * @param in the stream to parse objects from
   * @return a list containing those objects parsed from the input stream
   */
  MultipleObjectsBundle parse(InputStream in);

  /**
   * Perform cleanup operations after parsing.
   */
  void cleanup();
}
