MtextInputStreamProcessor.java

/**
 * <copyright>
 * </copyright>
 *
 * 
 */
package org.feature.multi.perspective.mapping.viewmapping.resource.mtext.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 MtextInputStreamProcessor 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();
}