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03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17:
18: /* $Id: Finalizable.java 426584 2006-07-28 16:01:47Z jeremias $ */
19:
20: package org.apache.xmlgraphics.util.io;
21:
22: /**
23: * This interface is used for special FilteredOutputStream classes that won't
24: * be closed (since this causes the target OutputStream to be closed, too) but
25: * where flush() is not enough, for example because a final marker has to be
26: * written to the target stream.
27: *
28: * @version $Id: Finalizable.java 426584 2006-07-28 16:01:47Z jeremias $
29: */
30: public interface Finalizable {
31:
32: /**
33: * This method can be called instead of close() on a subclass of
34: * FilteredOutputStream when a final marker has to be written to the target
35: * stream, but close() cannot be called.
36: *
37: * @exception java.io.IOException In case of an IO problem
38: */
39: void finalizeStream() throws java.io.IOException;
40:
41: }
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