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// Author: jmarantz@google.com (Joshua Marantz)

#ifndef PAGESPEED_KERNEL_BASE_WRITER_H_
#define PAGESPEED_KERNEL_BASE_WRITER_H_

#include "pagespeed/kernel/base/basictypes.h"
#include "pagespeed/kernel/base/string_util.h"

namespace net_instaweb {
class MessageHandler;

// Interface for writing bytes to an output stream.
class Writer {
 public:
  Writer() {}
  virtual ~Writer();

  virtual bool Write(const StringPiece& str, MessageHandler* handler) = 0;
  virtual bool Flush(MessageHandler* message_handler) = 0;

  // Dumps the contents of what's been written to the Writer.  Many
  // Writer implementations will not be able to do this, and the default
  // implementation will return false.  But StringWriter and
  // SharedCircularBuffer can dump their contents, and override
  // this with implementations that return true.
  virtual bool Dump(Writer* writer, MessageHandler* message_handler);

 private:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Writer);
};

}  // namespace net_instaweb

#endif  // PAGESPEED_KERNEL_BASE_WRITER_H_