/*
* Copyright 2007 T-Rank AS
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
package no.trank.openpipe.parse.api;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
/**
* An interface representing data to be parsed.
*
* @version $Revision$
*/
public interface ParseData {
/**
* Gets a stream for the data.
*
* @return a stream for the data.
*
* @throws IOException if an I/O-error occured.
*/
InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
/**
* Gets the length of the stream returned by {@link #getInputStream()}.
*
* @return the number of bytes.
*/
int getLength();
/**
* Tells whether properties of a parsed document is of interest.
*
* @return <tt>true</tt> if properties of a document is of interest, otherwise <tt>false</tt>.
*/
boolean includeProperties();
/**
* Gets the filename of the data.
*
* @return the filename of the data.
*/
String getFileName();
}