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   Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

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   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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*/

package com.mysql.clusterj.query;

/** QueryBuilder represents a factory for queries.
 * @see com.mysql.clusterj.Session#getQueryBuilder()
 *
 */
public interface QueryBuilder {

    /** Create a QueryDefinition to define queries.
     *
     * @param cls the class of the type to be queried
     * @return the QueryDomainType to define the query
     */
    <T> QueryDomainType<T> createQueryDefinition(Class<T> cls);

}
