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1 /*
2 * Copyright (c) 2003 The Visigoth Software Society. All rights
3 * reserved.
4 *
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19 * "This product includes software developed by the
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51 */
52
53 package freemarker.template;
54
55 /**
56 * <p>This is a marker interface that indicates that an object
57 * can be put in a template's data model.
58 *
59 * @see TemplateHashModel
60 * @see TemplateSequenceModel
61 * @see TemplateCollectionModel
62 * @see TemplateScalarModel
63 * @see TemplateNumberModel
64 * @see TemplateTransformModel
65 *
66 * @version $Id: TemplateModel.java,v 1.19 2003/01/12 23:40:21 revusky Exp $
67 */
68 public interface TemplateModel { /**
69 * A general-purpose object to represent nothing. It acts as
70 * an empty string, false, empty sequence, empty hash, and
71 * null-returning method model.
72 */
73 TemplateModel NOTHING = GeneralPurposeNothing.getInstance();
74 }