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package org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.model;

import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.Expression;
import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.model.query.StateObject;

/**
 * This builder is used by {@link BasicStateObjectBuilder}, which allows subclasses to easily change
 * any internal builders used for properly creating the state model representation of a JPQL query.
 *
 * @version 2.4
 * @since 2.4
 * @author Pascal Filion
 */
public interface IBuilder<T extends StateObject, S extends StateObject> {

	/**
	 * Creates the {@link StateObject} representation of the given {@link Expression}.
	 *
	 * @param parent The parent of the new {@link StateObject} to create
	 * @param expression The parsed {@link Expression} to convert into a {@link StateObject}
	 * @return The {@link StateObject} representation of the given {@link Expression}
	 */
	T buildStateObject(S parent, Expression expression);
}