/*
 This file is part of the OdinMS Maple Story Server
 Copyright (C) 2008 ~ 2010 Patrick Huy <patrick.huy@frz.cc> 
 Matthias Butz <matze@odinms.de>
 Jan Christian Meyer <vimes@odinms.de>

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3
 as published by the Free Software Foundation. You may not use, modify
 or distribute this program under any other version of the
 GNU Affero General Public License.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
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 */
package tools.data.output;

import java.awt.Point;

/**
 * Provides an interface to a writer class that writes a little-endian sequence
 * of bytes.
 *
 * @author Frz
 * @version 1.0
 * @since Revision 323
 */
public interface LittleEndianWriter {

    /**
     * Write the number of zero bytes
     *
     * @param i
     */
    public void writeZeroBytes(final int i);

    /**
     * Write an array of bytes to the sequence.
     *
     * @param b The bytes to write.
     */
    public void write(final byte b[]);

    /**
     * Write a byte to the sequence.
     *
     * @param b The byte to write.
     */
    public void write(final byte b);

    public void write(final int b);

    /**
     * Writes an integer to the sequence.
     *
     * @param i The integer to write.
     */
    public void writeInt(final int i);

    /**
     * Write a short integer to the sequence.
     *
     * @param s The short integer to write.
     */
    public void writeShort(final short s);

    public void writeShort(final int i);

    /**
     * Write a long integer to the sequence.
     *
     * @param l The long integer to write.
     */
    public void writeLong(final long l);

    /**
     * Writes an ASCII string the the sequence.
     *
     * @param s The ASCII string to write.
     */
    void writeAsciiString(final String s);

    void writeAsciiString(String s, final int max);

    /**
     * Writes a 2D 4 byte position information
     *
     * @param s The Point position to write.
     */
    void writePos(final Point s);

    /**
     * Writes a maple-convention ASCII string to the sequence.
     *
     * @param s The ASCII string to use maple-convention to write.
     */
    void writeMapleAsciiString(final String s);
}