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 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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package org.eclipse.compare;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;

/**
 * This interface defines a single operation for performing a three-way merge on three
 * input streams. The merged result is written to an output stream.
 * <p>
 * Clients must implement this interface when contributing new mergers to the
 * <code>org.eclipse.compare.streamMergers</code> extension point.
 * </p>
 * @deprecated Clients should use <code>org.eclipse.team.core.mapping.IStorageMerger</code> instead.
 * @since 3.0
 */
@Deprecated
public interface IStreamMerger {

	/**
	 * Indicates the successful completion of the merge operation (value <code>IStatus.OK</code>)
	 */
	public static final int OK= IStatus.OK;

	/**
	 * Indicates that a change conflict prevented the merge from successful completion (value <code>1</code>)
	 */
	public static final int CONFLICT= 1;

	/**
	 * Status code describing an internal error (value <code>2</code>)
	 */
	public static final int INTERNAL_ERROR= 2;

	/**
	 * Performs a merge operation on the given input streams and writes the merge result to the output stream.
	 * On success a status <code>IStatus.OK</code> is returned, on error a status <code>IStatus.ERROR</code>.
	 * If the merge operation cannot deal with conflicts, the code of the error status has the value <code>IStreamMerger.CONFLICT</code>.
	 * For text oriented mergers the encoding for the input and output streams is honored.
	 * It is the responsibility of callers to close input and output streams.
	 *
	 * @param output the byte stream to which the merge result is written; the merger will not close the stream
	 * @param outputEncoding the encoding to use when writing to the output stream
	 * @param ancestor the byte stream from which the common ancestor is read
	 * @param ancestorEncoding the encoding of the ancestor input byte stream
	 * @param target the byte stream containing the target of the merge
	 * @param targetEncoding the encoding of the target input byte stream
	 * @param other the byte stream containing the target of the merge
	 * @param otherEncoding the encoding of the other input byte stream
	 * @param monitor reports progress of the merge operation
	 * @return returns the completion status of the operation
	 */
	IStatus merge(OutputStream output, String outputEncoding,
			InputStream ancestor, String ancestorEncoding,
			InputStream target, String targetEncoding,
			InputStream other, String otherEncoding,
				IProgressMonitor monitor);
}