Common interfaces for patches

Author: vincent

src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/JsonPatch.java

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
  * constructor for this class ({@link JsonPatch#fromJson(JsonNode)} is used.</p>
  */
 public final class JsonPatch
-    implements JsonSerializable
+    implements JsonSerializable, Patch
 {
     private static final MessageBundle BUNDLE
         = MessageBundles.getBundle(JsonPatchMessages.class);

src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/Patch.java

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package com.github.fge.jsonpatch;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+
+public interface Patch {
+
+    JsonNode apply(JsonNode node) throws JsonPatchException;
+}

src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/mergepatch/JsonMergePatch.java

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import com.github.fge.jsonpatch.JsonPatch;
 import com.github.fge.jsonpatch.JsonPatchException;
 import com.github.fge.jsonpatch.JsonPatchMessages;
+import com.github.fge.jsonpatch.Patch;
 import com.github.fge.msgsimple.bundle.MessageBundle;
 import com.github.fge.msgsimple.load.MessageBundles;
 
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@
 @ParametersAreNonnullByDefault
 @JsonDeserialize(using = JsonMergePatchDeserializer.class)
 public abstract class JsonMergePatch
-    implements JsonSerializable
+    implements JsonSerializable, Patch
 {
     private static final ObjectMapper MAPPER = JacksonUtils.newMapper();
     protected static final MessageBundle BUNDLE