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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management in\r
+ * Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.databoard.util.binary;
+
+import java.io.DataInput;\r
+import java.io.EOFException;\r
+import java.io.IOException;\r
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;\r
+
+/**
+ * BinaryReadable is a readable stream of bytes.
+ *
+ * Common interface for ByteBuffer, byte[], InputStream, RandomAccessFile.
+ *
+ * @see ByteBufferReadable
+ * @see InputStreamReadable
+ * @author Toni Kalajainen (toni.kalajainen@vtt.fi)
+ */
+public interface BinaryReadable extends DataInput {
+\r
+ long skipBytes(long bytes) throws IOException;\r
+
+ /**\r
+ * Read buf fully\r
+ * \r
+ * @param buf\r
+ * @throws EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading all\r
+ * the bytes.\r
+ * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.\r
+ */
+ void readFully(ByteBuffer buf)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Read fully length bytes
+ *
+ * @param buf
+ * @param length
+ * @throws EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading\r
+ * all the bytes.\r
+ * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.\r
+ */
+ void readFully(ByteBuffer buf, int length)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ long length() throws IOException;
+
+ long position() throws IOException;
+
+}
+