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package org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner;
import org.yaml.snakeyaml.tokens.Token;
/**
* This interface represents an input stream of {@link Token Tokens}.
* <p>
* The parser and the scanner form together the 'Parse' step in the loading
* process (see chapter 3.1 of the <a href="http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/">YAML
* Specification</a>).
* </p>
*
* @see org.yaml.snakeyaml.tokens.Token
*/
public interface Scanner {
/**
* Check if the next token is one of the given types.
*
* @param choices
* token IDs.
* @return <code>true</code> if the next token can be assigned to a variable
* of at least one of the given types. Returns <code>false</code> if
* no more tokens are available.
* @throws ScannerException
* Thrown in case of malformed input.
*/
boolean checkToken(Token.ID... choices);
/**
* Return the next token, but do not delete it from the stream.
*
* @return The token that will be returned on the next call to
* {@link #getToken}
* @throws ScannerException
* Thrown in case of malformed input.
*/
Token peekToken();
/**
* Returns the next token.
* <p>
* The token will be removed from the stream.
* </p>
*
* @throws ScannerException
* Thrown in case of malformed input.
*/
Token getToken();
}