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package org.netbeans.lib.editor.codetemplates.spi;

import org.netbeans.spi.editor.mimelookup.MimeLocation;

/**
 * Factory constructs code template processor for a given insert request.
 * <br/>
 * The factory instances are looked up
 * by {@link org.netbeans.api.editor.mimelookup.MimeLookup}
 * so they should be registered in an xml-layer in
 * <i>Editors/&lt;mime-type&gt;/CodeTemplateProcessorFactories</i> directory.
 *
 * @author Miloslav Metelka
 */
@MimeLocation(subfolderName="CodeTemplateProcessorFactories")
public interface CodeTemplateProcessorFactory {

    /**
     * Create an instance of code template processor for a given insert request.
     *
     * @param request non-null code template insert request to be processed
     *  by the given processor instance.
     * @return non-null instance of the processor. The constructed instance
     *  should be given the insert request so that it can operate on it.
     */
    CodeTemplateProcessor createProcessor(CodeTemplateInsertRequest request);
    
}