/*
* Copyright (c) 2010, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*
*/
package org.qi4j.io;
/**
* Input source of data.
* <p/>
* Invoke transferTo to send data from this input to given output. transferTo can be invoked
* as many times as you want. The transferTo implementation must ensure that any exceptions thrown
* by the Input or the Output which transferred data is sent to is handled properly, i.e. that resources
* are closed. Any client code to transferTo calls should not have to bother with resource management,
* but may catch exceptions anyway for logging and similar purposes.
*/
// START SNIPPET: input
public interface Input<T, SenderThrowableType extends Throwable>
{
<ReceiverThrowableType extends Throwable> void transferTo( Output<? super T, ReceiverThrowableType> output )
throws SenderThrowableType, ReceiverThrowableType;
}
// END SNIPPET: input