001/* 002 * Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Chris K Wensel. All Rights Reserved. 003 * 004 * Project and contact information: http://www.cascading.org/ 005 * 006 * This file is part of the Cascading project. 007 * 008 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 009 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 010 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 015 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 016 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 017 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 018 * limitations under the License. 019 */ 020 021package cascading.nested.core; 022 023import cascading.tuple.type.CoercibleType; 024import heretical.pointer.path.NestedPointerCompiler; 025 026/** 027 * 028 */ 029public interface NestedCoercibleType<Node, Result> extends CoercibleType<Node> 030 { 031 NestedPointerCompiler<Node, Result> getNestedPointerCompiler(); 032 033 Node deepCopy( Node node ); 034 035 Node newRoot(); 036 037 /** 038 * Method getNode returns a Node representation for the given value. 039 * <p> 040 * This is different than a type coercion. With a coercion, a String value could be parsed from XML into a DOM object. 041 * <p> 042 * With a literal conversion, it is assumed the String is a literal String value and is not to be parsed. 043 * 044 * @param value of Object 045 * @return Node 046 */ 047 default Node node( Object value ) 048 { 049 return getNestedPointerCompiler().node( value ); 050 } 051 }