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1   /*
2    *   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
3    *
4    *   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    *   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    *   You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    *
8    *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9    *
10   *   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   *   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   *   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   *   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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15   *
16   */
17  package org.apache.asn1.codec.stateful;
18  
19  
20  /***
21   * A factory for creating new StatefulDecoders.
22   *
23   * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory Project</a>
24   * @version $Rev: 157644 $
25   */
26  public interface DecoderFactory
27  {
28      /***
29       * Creates a chunking state based decoder.
30       *
31       * @return a chunking state based decoder
32       */
33      StatefulDecoder createDecoder();
34  }