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package org.eclipse.jgit.attributes;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * An abstraction for JGit's builtin implementations for hooks and filters.
 * Instead of spawning an external processes to start a filter/hook and to pump
 * data from/to stdin/stdout these builtin commmands may be used. They are
 * constructed by {@link FilterCommandFactory}.
 *
 * @since 4.6
 */
public abstract class FilterCommand {
	/**
	 * The {@link InputStream} this command should read from
	 */
	protected InputStream in;

	/**
	 * The {@link OutputStream} this command should write to
	 */
	protected OutputStream out;

	/**
	 * @param in
	 *            The {@link InputStream} this command should read from
	 * @param out
	 *            The {@link OutputStream} this command should write to
	 */
	public FilterCommand(InputStream in, OutputStream out) {
		this.in = in;
		this.out = out;
	}

	/**
	 * Execute the command. The command is supposed to read data from
	 * {@link #in} and to write the result to {@link #out}. It returns the
	 * number of bytes it read from {@link #in}. It should be called in a loop
	 * until it returns -1 signaling that the {@link InputStream} is completely
	 * processed.
	 *
	 * @return the number of bytes read from the {@link InputStream} or -1. -1
	 *         means that the {@link InputStream} is completely processed.
	 * @throws IOException
	 *             when {@link IOException} occured while reading from
	 *             {@link #in} or writing to {@link #out}
	 *
	 */
	public abstract int run() throws IOException;
}