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Interface Writable

public interface Writable

Abstraction of an entity capable of writing itself out onto a specified output stream using a determinate number of bytes.

Author:

Thomas Vachuska

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	writableLength() Get the number of bytes that will be required to write itself out.
void	write(OutputStream os) Writes itself out onto the specified output stream.

Method Detail

writableLength

int writableLength()

Get the number of bytes that will be required to write itself out.

Returns:

number of bytes that will be written by write(OutputStream) method invocation

write

void write(OutputStream os)
           throws IOException

Writes itself out onto the specified output stream. The number of bytes written must correspond to the result of writableLength() invocation.

Parameters:

os - output stream which the object is to write itself

Throws:

IOException - if any IO error occurs while writing to output