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017package org.apache.commons.dbutils;
018
019import java.sql.ResultSet;
020import java.sql.SQLException;
021
022/**
023 * Implementations of this interface convert ResultSets into other objects.
024 *
025 * @param <T> the target type the input ResultSet will be converted to.
026 */
027public interface ResultSetHandler<T> {
028
029    /**
030     * Turn the {@code ResultSet} into an Object.
031     *
032     * @param resultSet The {@code ResultSet} to handle.  It has not been touched
033     * before being passed to this method.
034     *
035     * @return An Object initialized with {@code ResultSet} data. It is
036     * legal for implementations to return {@code null} if the
037     * {@code ResultSet} contained 0 rows.
038     *
039     * @throws SQLException if a database access error occurs
040     */
041    T handle(ResultSet resultSet) throws SQLException;
042
043}