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package org.apache.commons.configuration2.io;

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

import org.apache.commons.configuration2.ex.ConfigurationException;

/**
 * <p>
 * Definition of an interface to be implemented by objects which support reading
 * from an input stream.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * When reading data using a {@link FileHandler} per default a reader is used as
 * defined by the {@link FileBased#read(java.io.Reader)} method. For some
 * configuration formats it is necessary to directly read binary data. In order
 * to achieve this, a {@link FileBased} object can also implement this
 * interface. It defines an additional {@code read()} method expecting an
 * {@code InputStream} as argument. If the {@code FileHandler} detects that its
 * associated {@code FileBased} object implements this interface, it passes the
 * input stream directly rather than transforming it to a reader.
 * </p>
 *
 * @version $Id: InputStreamSupport.java 1624601 2014-09-12 18:04:36Z oheger $
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface InputStreamSupport
{
    /**
     * Reads the content of this object from the specified {@code InputStream}.
     *
     * @param in the input stream
     * @throws ConfigurationException if a non-I/O related problem occurs, e.g.
     *         the data read does not have the expected format
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    void read(InputStream in) throws ConfigurationException, IOException;
}
