extensions/grapher/src/com/google/inject/grapher/Renderer.java

/**
 * 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
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 */

package com.google.inject.grapher;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface for the service that renders the graph. It is assumed that the
 * implementations for {@link BindingEdge.Factory},
 * {@link ImplementationNode.Factory}, etc. will have direct access to the
 * internals of the {@link Renderer} implementation, so the only external
 * interface needed is the {@link #render()} call that {@link InjectorGrapher}
 * calls when it's done.
 *
 * @author phopkins@gmail.com (Pete Hopkins)
 */
public interface Renderer {
  void render() throws IOException;
}