/*
 * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package org.apache.commons.net.ftp;


/**
 * This interface adds the aspect of configurability by means of
 * a supplied FTPClientConfig object to other classes in the
 * system, especially listing parsers.
 */
public interface Configurable {

	/**
	 * @param config the object containing the configuration data
	 * @return the object being configured after the configuration
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the elements of the 
	 * <code>config</code> are somehow inadequate to configure the
	 * Configurable object.
	 */
	public void configure(
			FTPClientConfig config);	
}