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package net.sf.jailer;

import java.sql.SQLException;

import net.sf.jailer.database.Session.ResultSetReader;
import net.sf.jailer.datamodel.Table;

/**
 * Creates transformer (as {@link ResultSetReader} which transforms rows into an external representation.
 * 
 * @author Ralf Wisser
 */
public interface TransformerFactory {

	/**
	 * Creates transformer (as {@link ResultSetReader} which 
	 * transforms rows of a given table into an external representation.
	 * 
	 * @param table the table
	 * @return a transformer
	 */
	ResultSetReader create(Table table) throws SQLException;
	
}
