/*
Wotonomy: OpenStep design patterns for pure Java applications.
Copyright (C) 2002 Israfil consulting Services Corporation

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, see http://www.gnu.org

$Id: NSCoder.java 893 2006-02-16 13:22:23Z cgruber $

*/

package net.wotonomy.foundation;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
* A class that defines a simple encode/decode paradigm.  Subclasses
* would handle the target format.
*
* @author cgruber@israfil.net
* @author $Author: cgruber $
* @version $Revision: 893 $
*/

public abstract class NSCoder {

    public NSCoder() {
    }

    public abstract void encodeBoolean(boolean flag);

    public abstract void encodeByte(byte byte0);

    public abstract void encodeBytes(byte abyte0[]);

    public abstract void encodeChar(char c);

    public abstract void encodeShort(short word0);

    public abstract void encodeInt(int i);

    public abstract void encodeLong(long l);

    public abstract void encodeFloat(float f);

    public abstract void encodeDouble(double d);

    public abstract void encodeObject(Object obj);

    public abstract void encodeClass(Class class1);

    public abstract void encodeObjects(Object aobj[]);

    public abstract boolean decodeBoolean();

    public abstract byte decodeByte();

    public abstract byte[] decodeBytes();

    public abstract char decodeChar();

    public abstract short decodeShort();

    public abstract int decodeInt();

    public abstract long decodeLong();

    public abstract float decodeFloat();

    public abstract double decodeDouble();

    public abstract Object decodeObject();

    public abstract Class decodeClass();

    public abstract Object[] decodeObjects();

    public void prepareForWriting(OutputStream outputstream) {
    }

    public void prepareForReading(InputStream inputstream) {
    }

    public void finishCoding() {
    }

}
/*
 * $Log$
 * Revision 1.2  2006/02/16 13:15:00  cgruber
 * Check in all sources in eclipse-friendly maven-enabled packages.
 *
 * Revision 1.1  2002/07/14 21:56:16  mpowers
 * Contributions from cgruber.
 *
 * Revision 1.2  2002/06/25 19:03:02  cgruber
 * Internal documentation fixes.
 *
 * Revision 1.1  2002/06/25 07:52:57  cgruber
 * Add quite a few abstract classes, interfaces, and classes.  All API consistent with WebObjects, but with no implementation, nor any private or package access members from the original.
 *
 */