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Library for parsing, encoding and validating bencoded documents in Java

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package bt.bencoding.model;

import bt.bencoding.BEType;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Generic bencoded object.
 *
 * @param  Java type of the object's value.
 * @since 1.0
 */
public interface BEObject {

    /**
     * @return Object's type
     * @since 1.0
     */
    BEType getType();

    /**
     * @return Binary representation of this object, as read from source
     *         (excluding type prefix and terminator, if applicable).
     * @since 1.0
     */
    byte[] getContent();

    /**
     * @return Object's value
     * @since 1.0
     */
    T getValue();

    /**
     * Write this object's contents to the provided stream (excluding type prefix and terminator).
     *
     * @since 1.0
     */
    void writeTo(OutputStream out) throws IOException;
}