/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010 the original author or authors.
 * See the notice.md file distributed with this work for additional
 * information regarding copyright ownership.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.beust.jcommander;

/**
 * A factory for IStringConverter. This interface lets you specify your
 * converters in one place instead of having them repeated all over
 * your argument classes.
 * 
 * @author cbeust
 * @see IStringConverterInstanceFactory
 */
public interface IStringConverterFactory {
  <T> Class<? extends IStringConverter<T>> getConverter(Class<T> forType);
}

/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010 the original author or authors.
 * See the notice.md file distributed with this work for additional
 * information regarding copyright ownership.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.beust.jcommander;

/**
 * A factory for IStringConverter. This interface lets you specify your
 * converters in one place instead of having them repeated all over
 * your argument classes.
 *
 * @author cbeust
 * @see IStringConverterInstanceFactory
 */
public interface IStringConverterFactory {
  Class<? extends IStringConverter<?>> getConverter(Class<?> forType);
}

Remove the generic in IStringConverterFactory