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package org.mulgara.content;
// Java 2 standard packages
import java.io.InputStream;
// Local packages
import org.mulgara.resolver.spi.ResolverSession;
import org.mulgara.resolver.spi.Statements;
/**
* Mediates access to the system's ContentHandlers. Manages the mapping from a
* Content objects metadata/stream to the appropriate ContentHandler capable of
* parsing it.
*
* @created 2004-09-10
* @author <a href="http://staff.pisoftware.com/andrae">Andrae Muys</a>
* @version $Revision: 1.8 $
* @modified $Date: 2005/01/05 04:58:50 $ @maintenanceAuthor $Author: newmana $
* @company <a href="mailto:info@tucanatech.com">Tucana Technology</a>
* @copyright © 2004 <a href="http://www.tucanatech.com/">Tucana
* Technology Inc</a>
* @licence <a href="{@docRoot}/../../LICENCE">Mozilla Public License v1.1</a>
*/
public interface ContentHandlerManager
{
/**
* Obtains a {@link ContentHandler} suitable for managing the given content.
*
* @param content the content to handle, never <code>null</code>
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if <var>content</var> is <code>null</code>
* @throws NotModifiedException if the <var>content</var> is already cached
*/
public ContentHandler getContentHandler(Content content)
throws ContentHandlerException, NotModifiedException;
/**
* Will eventually try all content handers for unidentifiable streams,
* currently defaults to RDFXML.
*
* Note: This method currently does not work, and won't until we can
* successfully wrap arbitary {@link InputStream}s to ensure independent
* parsing.
*
* @param content the content to parse, never <code>null</code>
* @param resolverSession the context in which to localize RDF resources
* occuring within the <var>content</var>, never <code>null</code>
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if <var>content</var> or
* <var>resolverSession</var> are <code>null</code>
*/
public Statements blindParse(Content content, ResolverSession resolverSession)
throws ContentHandlerException, NotModifiedException;
}