ChunkParser.java

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package org.glassfish.jersey.client;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Chunk data parser.
 *
 * Implementations of this interface are used by a {@link org.glassfish.jersey.client.ChunkedInput}
 * instance for parsing response entity input stream into chunks.
 * <p>
 * Chunk parsers are expected to read data from the response entity input stream
 * until a non-empty data chunk is fully read and then return the chunk data back
 * to the {@link org.glassfish.jersey.client.ChunkedInput} instance for further
 * processing (i.e. conversion into a specific Java type).
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Chunk parsers are typically expected to skip any empty chunks (the chunks that do
 * not contain any data) or any control meta-data associated with chunks, however it
 * is not a hard requirement to do so. The decision depends on the knowledge of which
 * {@link javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader} implementation is selected for de-serialization
 * of the chunk data.
 * </p>
 *
 * @author Marek Potociar (marek.potociar at oracle.com)
 */
public interface ChunkParser {
    /**
     * Invoked by {@link org.glassfish.jersey.client.ChunkedInput} to get the data for
     * the next chunk.
     *
     * @param responseStream response entity input stream.
     * @return next chunk data represented as an array of bytes, or {@code null}
     *         if no more chunks are available.
     * @throws java.io.IOException in case reading from the response entity fails.
     */
    public byte[] readChunk(InputStream responseStream) throws IOException;
}