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package com.google.enterprise.adaptor;

import java.net.URI;

/**
 * Allows converting from a URI to a unvalidated DocId.
 *
 * @see DocIdEncoder
 */
interface DocIdDecoder {
  /**
   * Extract the DocId from the provided URI. Note that the DocId is not
   * guaranteed to have been created by the adaptor library; they can easily be
   * faked.
   */
  public DocId decodeDocId(URI uri);
}