package org.trails.io;

 import org.apache.tapestry.services.DataSqueezer;

 /**

  * Interface which, as the SqueezeAdaptor, defines a class used to convert data for a specific Java type into a String

  * format (squeeze it), or convert from a String back into a Java type (unsqueeze).

  * This interface is used to turn the squeezer service (tapestry.data.DataSqueezer) into a pipeline.

  *

  * @author James Carman

  * @see org.apache.tapestry.util.io.SqueezeAdaptor

  */

 public interface SqueezeFilter

 {

         String[] squeeze(Object[] objects, DataSqueezer next);

         String squeeze(Object object, DataSqueezer next);

         Object[] unsqueeze(String[] strings, DataSqueezer next);

         Object unsqueeze(String string, DataSqueezer next);

 }