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package org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent;

import org.elasticsearch.common.ParseFieldMatcher;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamableReader;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Indicates that the class supports XContent deserialization.
 *
 * This interface is similar to what {@link StreamableReader} does, only it works with XContent serialization
 * instead of binary serialization.
 */
public interface FromXContentBuilder<T> {
    /**
     * Parses an object with the type T from parser
     */
    T fromXContent(XContentParser parser, ParseFieldMatcher parseFieldMatcher) throws IOException;
}
