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/*
* Copyright (c) 2010-2018 BSI Business Systems Integration AG.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* BSI Business Systems Integration AG - initial API and implementation
*/
package org.eclipse.scout.rt.dataobject;
/**
* Marker interface for a data object.
* <p>
* Object-like data objects are represented using {@link IDoEntity} interface, {@link DoEntity} default implementation
* and its subclasses, collection-like data objects are represented using {@link DoList}.
* <p>
* Use this interface for deserialize any data object, whose content is not further specified, e.g:
*
* <pre>
* IDataObject dataObject = BEANS.get(IDataObjectMapper.class).readValue(value, IDataObject.class);
* if (dataObject instanceof IDoEntity) {
* // handle IDoEntity object content
* }
* else if (dataObject instanceof DoList) {
* // handle DoList content
* }
* </pre>
*
* @see DoList
* @see IDoEntity
*/
public interface IDataObject {
}