/*
 	OrpheusMS: MapleStory Private Server based on OdinMS
    Copyright (C) 2012 Aaron Weiss <aaron@deviant-core.net>
    				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 as
    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.

    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
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
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 an array of bytes to the sequence.
	 * 
	 * @param b
	 *            The bytes to write.
	 */
	public void write(byte b[]);

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

	/**
	 * Write a byte in integer form to the sequence.
	 * 
	 * @param b
	 *            The byte as an <code>Integer</code> to write.
	 */
	public void write(int b);

	public void skip(int b);

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

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

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

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

	/**
	 * Writes a null-terminated ASCII string to the sequence.
	 * 
	 * @param s
	 *            The ASCII string to write.
	 */
	void writeNullTerminatedAsciiString(String s);

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

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