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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2011 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.compare;
import java.io.InputStream;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
/**
* An <code>IStreamContentAccessor</code> object represents a set of bytes which can be
* accessed by means of a stream.
* <p>
* Clients may implement this interface, or use the standard implementation,
* <code>BufferedContent</code>.
*
* @see BufferedContent
*/
public interface IStreamContentAccessor {
/**
* Returns an open <code>InputStream</code> for this object which can be used to retrieve the object's content.
* The client is responsible for closing the stream when finished.
* Returns <code>null</code> if this object has no streamable contents.
*
* @return an input stream containing the contents of this object
* @exception CoreException if the contents of this object could not be accessed
*/
InputStream getContents() throws CoreException;
}
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