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package org.apache.pdfbox.cos;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException;
/**
* This class represents a null PDF object.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:ben@benlitchfield.com">Ben Litchfield</a>
* @version $Revision: 1.13 $
*/
public class COSNull extends COSBase
{
/**
* The null token.
*/
public static final byte[] NULL_BYTES = new byte[] {110, 117, 108, 108}; //"null".getBytes( "ISO-8859-1" );
/**
* The one null object in the system.
*/
public static final COSNull NULL = new COSNull();
/**
* Constructor.
*/
private COSNull()
{
//limit creation to one instance.
}
/**
* visitor pattern double dispatch method.
*
* @param visitor The object to notify when visiting this object.
* @return any object, depending on the visitor implementation, or null
* @throws COSVisitorException If an error occurs while visiting this object.
*/
public Object accept( ICOSVisitor visitor ) throws COSVisitorException
{
return visitor.visitFromNull( this );
}
/**
* This will output this string as a PDF object.
*
* @param output The stream to write to.
* @throws IOException If there is an error writing to the stream.
*/
public void writePDF( OutputStream output ) throws IOException
{
output.write(NULL_BYTES);
}
}