code: /*
   * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
   *
   * 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 tools.com.google.gson.internal;
  
  /**
   * Defines a generic object construction factory.  The purpose of this class
   * is to construct a default instance of a class that can be used for object
   * navigation while deserialization from its JSON representation.
   *
   * @author Inderjeet Singh
   * @author Joel Leitch
   */
  public interface ObjectConstructor<T> {
  
    /**
     * Returns a new instance.
     */
    public T construct();
  }