hlship-20080520/tapestry-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tapestry/internal/services/ResourceStreamer.java

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package org.apache.tapestry.internal.services;

import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.Resource;
import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.internal.util.ClasspathResource;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Responsible for streaming the contents of a resource to the client. The {@link Resource} to stream is almost always a
 * {@link ClasspathResource}.
 */
public interface ResourceStreamer
{
    /**
     * Streams the content of the resource to the client.
     */
    void streamResource(Resource resource) throws IOException;
}