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* Nicolas Chapurlat <nchapurlat@nuxeo.com>
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package org.nuxeo.ecm.core.io.registry;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
/**
* Interface of Java type to mimetype converter.
* <p>
* see {@link Marshaller} for more details.
* </p>
*
* @param <EntityType> The managed Java type.
* @since 7.2
*/
public interface Writer<EntityType> extends Marshaller<EntityType> {
/**
* Writes the entity to out {@link OutputStream} using mediatype format.
* <p>
* This method implementation can use injected properties.
* </p>
*
* @param entity The entity to marshall.
* @param clazz The requested marshalled class.
* @param genericType The requested marshalled generic type.
* @param mediatype The target mediatype.
* @param out The output of this marshaller.
* @throws IOException If some error append while writing entity to out.
* @since 7.2
*/
public void write(EntityType entity, Class<?> clazz, Type genericType, MediaType mediatype, OutputStream out)
throws IOException;
}