ThingmlInputStreamProcessor.java

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package org.sintef.thingml.resource.thingml.mopp;

/**
 * A InputStreamProcessor can be used like a normal java.io.InputStream, but
 * provides information about the encoding that is used to represent characters as
 * bytes.
 */
public abstract class ThingmlInputStreamProcessor extends java.io.InputStream {
	
	/**
	 * Returns the encoding of the characters that can be read from this
	 * InputStreamProcessor. This encoding is passed to subsequent streams (e.g., the
	 * ANTLRInputStream).
	 */
	public abstract String getOutputEncoding();
}