/* Copyright 2006 FangYidong

   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
   limitations under the License. */
package org.json.simple.parser;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Container factory for creating containers for JSON object and JSON array.
 * 
 * @see org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser#parse(java.io.Reader, ContainerFactory)
 * 
 * @author FangYidong&lt;fangyidong@yahoo.com.cn&gt;
 * @deprecated since 2.0.0 the same results can be achieved with the Map and Collection constructors in java post parsing.
 */
@Deprecated
public interface ContainerFactory {
	/**
	 * @return A Map instance to store JSON object, or null if you want to use org.json.simple.JSONObject.
	 */
	Map createObjectContainer();
	
	/**
	 * @return A List instance to store JSON array, or null if you want to use org.json.simple.JSONArray. 
	 */
	List creatArrayContainer();
}
