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package com.google.gwt.text.shared;

import com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtml;
import com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtmlBuilder;

/**
 * <span style="color:red">Experimental API: This class is still under rapid
 * development, and is very likely to be deleted. Use it at your own risk.
 * </span>
 * <p>
 * An object that can render other objects of a particular type into safe HTML
 * form. Allows decoupling that is useful for a dependency-injection
 * architecture.
 *
 * @param <T> the type to render
 */
public interface SafeHtmlRenderer<T> {

  /**
   * Renders {@code object} as safe HTML.
   */
  SafeHtml render(T object);

  /**
   * Renders {@code object} as safe HTML, appended directly to {@code builder}.
   */
  void render(T object, SafeHtmlBuilder builder);
}