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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.compare; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Extension for <code>IStreamContentAccessor</code>. Extends the original |
| * concept of a <code>IStreamContentAccessor</code> to answer the Charset (encoding) used for the stream. |
| * <p> |
| * <b>Note</b>: This interface is part of early access API that may well |
| * change in incompatible ways until reach their finished form. |
| * </p> |
| * @since 3.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IEncodedStreamContentAccessor extends IStreamContentAccessor { |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the name of a charset encoding to be used when decoding this |
| * stream accessor's contents into characters. Returns <code>null</code> if a proper |
| * encoding cannot be determined. |
| * |
| * @return the name of a charset, or <code>null</code> |
| * @exception CoreException if an error happens while determining |
| * the charset. See any refinements for more information. |
| * @see IStreamContentAccessor#getContents |
| * @since 3.0 |
| */ |
| String getCharset() throws CoreException; |
| } |
