main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/Transform.java

/*
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 * Copyright (C) 2009, Google, International Business Machines Corporation and         *
 * others. All Rights Reserved.                                                *
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package com.ibm.icu.text;

/**
 * Provide an interface for Transforms that focuses just on the transformation of the text.
 * APIs that take Transliterator or StringTransform, but only depend on the transformation should use this interface in the API instead.
 *
 * @draft ICU 4.4
 * @author markdavis
 *
 */

public interface Transform<S,D> {
    /**
     * Transform the input in some way, to be determined by the subclass.
     * @param source to be transformed (eg lowercased)
     * @return result
     * @stable ICU 3.8
     */
    public D transform(S source);
}