/*
* Copyright (C) 2012, Katy Hilgenberg.
* Special acknowledgments to: Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel (http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de).
* Contact: sdcf@cs.uni-kassel.de
*
* This file is part of the SDCFramework (Sensor Data Collection Framework) project.
*
* The SDCFramework is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* The SDCFramework is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with the SDCFramework. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package de.unikassel.android.sdcframework.util.facade;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Interface for compression strategiy types.
*
* @author Katy Hilgenberg
*
*/
public interface CompressionStrategy
{
/**
* The compression method
*
* @param files
* a list with the files to compress
* @param out
* the output stream to compress files into
* @return true if successful, false otherwise
* @throws IOException
* if closing the output stream fails
*/
public abstract boolean compress( List< String > files,
BufferedOutputStream out ) throws IOException;
/**
* Getter for an archive file extension of this strategy
*
* @return the archive file extension of this strategy
*/
public abstract String getArchiveExtension();
}