| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 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.jdt.ui.jarpackager; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException; |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus; |
| |
| /** |
| * Writes the description file of a JAR package data object. |
| * <p> |
| * The format is defined by the client who implements the |
| * reader/writer pair. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @see org.eclipse.jdt.ui.jarpackager.JarPackageData |
| * @see org.eclipse.jdt.ui.jarpackager.IJarDescriptionReader |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IJarDescriptionWriter { |
| |
| /** |
| * Writes the JAR package data to the description file |
| * to to the underlying stream. |
| * <p> |
| * It is the client's responsibility to close this writer. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @param jarPackage the jar package data to write |
| * |
| * @throws CoreException if writing fails, e.g. I/O error during write operation |
| */ |
| void write(JarPackageData jarPackage) throws CoreException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Closes this writer. |
| * <p> |
| * It is the client's responsibility to close this writer. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @throws CoreException if closing fails, e.g. I/O error during close operation |
| */ |
| public void close() throws CoreException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the status of this reader. |
| * If there were any errors, the result is a status object containing |
| * individual status objects for each error. |
| * If there were no errors, the result is a status object with error code <code>OK</code>. |
| * |
| * @return the status of this operation |
| */ |
| public IStatus getStatus(); |
| } |