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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2010 David Grant
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 */
package org.jscep.content;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * This interface represents a mechanism for handling specific SCEP content.
 * 
 * @author David Grant
 * @param  the content handled by the handler implementation
 */
public interface ScepContentHandler {
	/**
	 * Read and interpret the content from the input stream.
	 * 
	 * @param in
	 *            the input stream containing the content.
	 * @param mimeType
	 *            the type of the input stream.
	 * @return the content in a usage form.
	 * @throws IOException
	 *             if any I/O error occurs.
	 */
	T getContent(InputStream in, String mimeType) throws IOException;
}