/*
 * Copyright 2008 ZXing authors
 *
 * 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
 *
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 *
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 */

package com.google.zxing;

/**
 * Represents some type of metadata about the result of the decoding that the
 * decoder wishes to communicate back to the caller.
 * 
 * @author Sean Owen
 */
public enum ResultMetadataType {

	/**
	 * Unspecified, application-specific metadata. Maps to an unspecified
	 * {@link Object}.
	 */
	OTHER,

	/**
	 * Denotes the likely approximate orientation of the barcode in the image.
	 * This value is given as degrees rotated clockwise from the normal, upright
	 * orientation. For example a 1D barcode which was found by reading
	 * top-to-bottom would be said to have orientation "90". This key maps to an
	 * {@link Integer} whose value is in the range [0,360).
	 */
	ORIENTATION,

	/**
	 * <p>
	 * 2D barcode formats typically encode text, but allow for a sort of 'byte
	 * mode' which is sometimes used to encode binary data. While {@link Result}
	 * makes available the complete raw bytes in the barcode for these formats,
	 * it does not offer the bytes from the byte segments alone.
	 * </p>
	 * 
	 * <p>
	 * This maps to a {@link java.util.List} of byte arrays corresponding to the
	 * raw bytes in the byte segments in the barcode, in order.
	 * </p>
	 */
	BYTE_SEGMENTS,

	/**
	 * Error correction level used, if applicable. The value type depends on the
	 * format, but is typically a String.
	 */
	ERROR_CORRECTION_LEVEL,

	/**
	 * For some periodicals, indicates the issue number as an {@link Integer}.
	 */
	ISSUE_NUMBER,

	/**
	 * For some products, indicates the suggested retail price in the barcode as
	 * a formatted {@link String}.
	 */
	SUGGESTED_PRICE,

	/**
	 * For some products, the possible country of manufacture as a
	 * {@link String} denoting the ISO country code. Some map to multiple
	 * possible countries, like "US/CA".
	 */
	POSSIBLE_COUNTRY,

	/**
	 * For some products, the extension text
	 */
	UPC_EAN_EXTENSION,

	/**
	 * PDF417-specific metadata
	 */
	PDF417_EXTRA_METADATA,

	/**
	 * If the code format supports structured append and the current scanned
	 * code is part of one then the sequence number is given with it.
	 */
	STRUCTURED_APPEND_SEQUENCE,

	/**
	 * If the code format supports structured append and the current scanned
	 * code is part of one then the parity is given with it.
	 */
	STRUCTURED_APPEND_PARITY,

}