initial implementation of Rest client framework (JAL-715)

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / ws / rest / AlignmentProcessor.java

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+package jalview.ws.rest;
+
+import jalview.datamodel.AlignmentI;
+
+public interface AlignmentProcessor {
+  /**
+   * prepare the context alignment for this input
+   * @param al - alignment to be processed
+   * @return al or a new alignment with appropriate attributes/order for input
+   */
+  public AlignmentI prepareAlignment(AlignmentI al);
+}
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