api/src/main/java/javax/faces/context/ResponseWriter.java

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package javax.faces.context;

import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;

/**
 * see Javadoc of <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/1.1_01/docs/api/index.html">JSF Specification</a>
 *
 * @author Manfred Geiler (latest modification by $Author$)
 * @version $Revision$ $Date$
 */
public abstract class ResponseWriter
        extends Writer
{
    public abstract String getContentType();

    public abstract String getCharacterEncoding();

    public abstract void flush()
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void startDocument()
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void endDocument()
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void startElement(String name,
                                      UIComponent component)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void endElement(String name)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeAttribute(String name,
                                        Object value,
                                        String property)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeURIAttribute(String name,
                                           Object value,
                                           String property)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeComment(Object comment)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeText(Object text,
                                   String property)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeText(char[] text,
                                   int off,
                                   int len)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract ResponseWriter cloneWithWriter(Writer writer);
}