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package org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.jsr223.console;

/**
 * Provides an abstraction over a "Gremlin Shell" (i.e. the core of a console), enabling the plugin to not have to
 * be hardcoded specifically to any particular shell, like the Gremlin Groovy Console, and thus allowing it to
 * not have to depend on the gremlin-groovy module itself.
 *
 * @author Stephen Mallette (http://stephen.genoprime.com)
 */
public interface GremlinShellEnvironment {

    public <T> T getVariable(final String variableName);

    public <T> void setVariable(final String variableName, final T variableValue);

    public void println(final String line);

    public default void errPrintln(final String line) {
        println(line);
    }

    public <T> T execute(final String line);
}
