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+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Callable, Optional
+
+from outlines import generate, models
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Application:
+    """Represents an Outlines application.
+
+    Applications are a convenient way to encapsulate a prompt template, a model
+    and a Pydantic model that define the output structure. Once defined, the
+    application can be called with arguments that will be used to render the
+    prompt template.
+
+    """
+
+    prompt_template: Callable
+    model_name: str
+    schema: object
+    generator: Optional[object] = None
+
+    def init_generator(self):
+        """Load the model and initialize the generator."""
+        model = models.transformers(self.model_name)
+        self.generator = generate.json(model, self.schema)
+
+    def __call__(self, *args):
+        """Call the application.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        args
+            Values to pass to the prompt template as positional arguments.
+        kwargs
+            Values to pass to the prompt template as keyword arguments.
+
+        """
+        if self.generator is None:
+            self.init_generator()
+
+        prompt = self.prompt_template(*args)
+        return self.generator(prompt)
+
+
+App = Application