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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);
}