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package com.sun.star.report;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Allows to query the data repository and returns a datasource for the
 * specified name and parameters. The parameters-map can be null, if there
 * are no parameters required.
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner
 */
public interface DataSourceFactory
{

    public DataSource queryData(String name, Map parameter)
            throws DataSourceException;
}