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+// Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+//
+// 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.
+// All Rights Reserved.
+
+package com.google.devtools.build.lib.graph;
+
+/**
+ *  <p> An interface for specifying a user-defined serialization of graph node
+ *  labels as strings. </p>
+ */
+public interface LabelSerializer<T> {
+
+  /**
+   *  Returns the serialized form of the label of the specified node.
+   */
+  String serialize(Node<T> node);
+}