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/*
 *    WekaWrapper.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2002 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.gui.beans;

/**
 * Interface to something that can wrap around a class of Weka
 * algorithms (classifiers, filters etc). Typically implemented
 * by a bean for handling classes of Weka algorithms. 
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz">Mark Hall</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $
 * @since 1.0
 */
public interface WekaWrapper {

  /**
   * Set the algorithm.
   *
   * @param algorithm an <code>Object</code> value
   * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the supplied object is
   * not of the class of algorithms handled by this wrapper.
   */
  void setWrappedAlgorithm(Object algorithm);

  /**
   * Get the algorithm
   *
   * @return an <code>Object</code> value
   */
  Object getWrappedAlgorithm();
}