geronimo-jaxrs_1.1_spec/src/main/java/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyReader.java

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package javax.ws.rs.ext;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;

import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;

public interface MessageBodyReader<T> {
    public boolean isReadable(Class<?> rawType,
                              Type genericType,
                              Annotation[] annotations,
                              MediaType mediaType);

    public T readFrom(Class<T> rawType,
                      Type genericType,
                      Annotation[] annotations,
                      MediaType mediaType,
                      MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders,
                      InputStream entityStream) throws IOException;
}