tikhomirov@115: /*
tikhomirov@115:  * Copyright (c) 2011 TMate Software Ltd
tikhomirov@115:  *  
tikhomirov@115:  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
tikhomirov@115:  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
tikhomirov@115:  * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
tikhomirov@115:  *
tikhomirov@115:  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
tikhomirov@115:  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
tikhomirov@115:  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
tikhomirov@115:  * GNU General Public License for more details.
tikhomirov@115:  *
tikhomirov@115:  * For information on how to redistribute this software under
tikhomirov@115:  * the terms of a license other than GNU General Public License
tikhomirov@115:  * contact TMate Software at support@svnkit.com
tikhomirov@115:  */
tikhomirov@115: package org.tmatesoft.hg.util;
tikhomirov@115: 
tikhomirov@115: import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
tikhomirov@115: 
tikhomirov@115: /**
tikhomirov@115:  * Much like {@link java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel} except for thrown exception 
tikhomirov@115:  * 
tikhomirov@115:  * XXX Perhaps, we'll add CharChannel in the future to deal with character conversions/encodings 
tikhomirov@115:  * 
tikhomirov@115:  * @author Artem Tikhomirov
tikhomirov@115:  * @author TMate Software Ltd.
tikhomirov@115:  */
tikhomirov@115: public interface ByteChannel {
tikhomirov@115: 	// XXX does int return value makes any sense given buffer keeps its read state
tikhomirov@115: 	// not clear what retvalue should be in case some filtering happened inside write - i.e. return
tikhomirov@115: 	// number of bytes consumed in 
tikhomirov@115: 	int write(ByteBuffer buffer) throws Exception /*FIXME Exception type*/;
tikhomirov@115: }