AttributeListAttribute.java

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package org.jnode.fs.ntfs.attribute;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * Common interface for both resident and non-resident attribute list
 * attributes.
 *
 * @author Daniel Noll (daniel@noll.id.au)
 */
public interface AttributeListAttribute {

    /**
     * Gets an iterator over all the entries in the attribute list.
     *
     * @return an iterator of all attribute list entries.
     * @throws IOException if there is an error reading the attribute's data.
     */
    Iterator<AttributeListEntry> getAllEntries() throws IOException;

}