comparison src/org/tmatesoft/hg/internal/Preview.java @ 355:f2c11fe7f3e9

Newline filter shall respect whole stream when deciding whether to process line terminators, hence added stream preview functionality
author Artem Tikhomirov <tikhomirov.artem@gmail.com>
date Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:57:21 +0100
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1 /*
2 * Copyright (c) 2011 TMate Software Ltd
3 *
4 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
7 *
8 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
9 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
10 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
11 * GNU General Public License for more details.
12 *
13 * For information on how to redistribute this software under
14 * the terms of a license other than GNU General Public License
15 * contact TMate Software at support@hg4j.com
16 */
17 package org.tmatesoft.hg.internal;
18
19 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
20 import java.nio.channels.ByteChannel;
21
22 /**
23 * Filters may need to look into data stream before actual processing takes place,
24 * for example, to find out whether filter shall be applied at all.
25 *
26 * {@link ByteChannel ByteChannels} that may use filters shall be checked for {@link Preview} adaptable before writing to them.
27 *
28 * E.g. newline filter handles streams with mixed newline endings according to configuration option
29 * (either process or ignore), hence, need to check complete stream first.
30 *
31 * @author Artem Tikhomirov
32 * @author TMate Software Ltd.
33 */
34 public interface Preview {
35 /**
36 * Supplied buffer may be shared between few Preview filter instances, hence implementers shall NOT consume (move position)
37 * of the buffer. Caller enforces this reseting buffer position between calls to previewers.
38 * <p>
39 * XXX if this approach turns out to impose a great burden on filter implementations, FilterByteChannel may be modified to keep
40 * record of how far each filter had read it's buffer.
41 */
42 void preview(ByteBuffer src);
43 }