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+// Mozilla has modified this file - see http://hg.mozilla.org/ for details.
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You 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 org.mozilla.apache.commons.codec;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Provides the highest level of abstraction for Decoders.
+ * This is the sister interface of {@link Encoder}.  All
+ * Decoders implement this common generic interface.</p>
+ * 
+ * <p>Allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Decoder 
+ * implementation in the codec package.</p>
+ * 
+ * <p>One of the two interfaces at the center of the codec package.</p>
+ * 
+ * @author Apache Software Foundation
+ * @version $Id: Decoder.java 1075404 2011-02-28 16:17:29Z ggregory $
+ */
+public interface Decoder {
+
+    /**
+     * Decodes an "encoded" Object and returns a "decoded"
+     * Object.  Note that the implementation of this
+     * interface will try to cast the Object parameter
+     * to the specific type expected by a particular Decoder
+     * implementation.  If a {@link ClassCastException} occurs
+     * this decode method will throw a DecoderException.
+     * 
+     * @param source the object to decode
+     * 
+     * @return a 'decoded" object
+     * 
+     * @throws DecoderException a decoder exception can
+     * be thrown for any number of reasons.  Some good
+     * candidates are that the parameter passed to this
+     * method is null, a param cannot be cast to the
+     * appropriate type for a specific encoder.
+     */
+    Object decode(Object source) throws DecoderException;
+}  
+