package com.fasterxml.jackson.core.util;
/**
* Add-on interface used to indicate things that may be "blueprint" objects
* which can not be used as is, but are used for creating usable per-process
* (serialization, deserialization) instances, using
* {@link #createInstance} method.
*<p>
* Note that some implementations may choose to implement {@link #createInstance}
* by simply returning 'this': this is acceptable if instances are stateless.
*
* @see DefaultPrettyPrinter
*
* @since 2.1
*/
public interface Instantiatable<T>
{
/**
* Method called to ensure that we have a non-blueprint object to use;
* it is either this object (if stateless), or a newly created object
* with separate state.
*/
public T createInstance();
}