01: /* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
02: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
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04: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
05: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
06: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: */
16:
17: package java.io;
18:
19: /**
20: * <p>
21: * Indicates that an output object can be flushed.
22: * </p>
23: *
24: * @since 1.5
25: */
26: public interface Flushable {
27: /**
28: * <p>
29: * Flushes the object by writing out any buffered data to the underlying
30: * output.
31: * </p>
32: *
33: * @throws IOException
34: * if there are any issues writing the data.
35: */
36: void flush() throws IOException;
37: }
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