solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/ResponseParser.java

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package org.apache.solr.client.solrj;

import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;

/**
 * 
 *
 * @since solr 1.3
 */
public abstract class ResponseParser
{
  public abstract String getWriterType(); // for example: wt=XML, JSON, etc

  public abstract NamedList<Object> processResponse(InputStream body, String encoding);

  public abstract NamedList<Object> processResponse(Reader reader);
  
  /**
   * A well behaved ResponseParser will return its content-type.
   * 
   * @return the content-type this parser expects to parse
   */
  public String getContentType() {
    return null;
  }
  
  /**
   * @return the version param passed to solr
   */
  public String getVersion()
  {
    return "2.2";
  }
}