streamline rebased Gson into source; rebase was done to prevent conflict with other plugins (like upcoming WorldGuard release) which also use Gson; Bukkit doesn't yet handle such conflicts properly

src/com/bukkit/mcteam/gson/ObjectConstructor.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+package com.bukkit.mcteam.gson;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+
+/**
+ * Defines a generic object construction factory.  The purpose of this class
+ * is to construct a default instance of a class that can be used for object
+ * navigation while deserialization from its JSON representation.
+ *
+ * @author Inderjeet Singh
+ * @author Joel Leitch
+ */
+interface ObjectConstructor {
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a new instance of the given type.
+   *
+   * @param typeOfT the class type that should be instantiated
+   * @return a default instance of the provided class.
+   */
+  public <T> T construct(Type typeOfT);
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs an array type of the provided length.
+   *
+   * @param typeOfArrayElements type of objects in the array
+   * @param length size of the array
+   * @return new array of size length
+   */
+  public Object constructArray(Type typeOfArrayElements, int length);
+}