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package org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.poi.hpsf.ClassID;

/**
 * This interface defines methods specific to Directory objects
 * managed by a Filesystem instance.
 *
 * @author Marc Johnson (mjohnson at apache dot org)
 */

public interface DirectoryEntry
    extends Entry, Iterable
{

    /**
     * get an iterator of the Entry instances contained directly in
     * this instance (in other words, children only; no grandchildren
     * etc.)
     *
     * @return iterator; never null, but hasNext() may return false
     *         immediately (i.e., this DirectoryEntry is empty). All
     *         objects retrieved by next() are guaranteed to be
     *         implementations of Entry.
     */

    public Iterator getEntries();
    
    /**
     * get the names of all the Entries contained directly in this
     * instance (in other words, names of children only; no grandchildren
     * etc).
     *
     * @return the names of all the entries that may be retrieved with
     *         getEntry(String), which may be empty (if this 
     *         DirectoryEntry is empty)
     */
    public Set getEntryNames();

    /**
     * is this DirectoryEntry empty?
     *
     * @return true if this instance contains no Entry instances
     */

    public boolean isEmpty();

    /**
     * find out how many Entry instances are contained directly within
     * this DirectoryEntry
     *
     * @return number of immediately (no grandchildren etc.) contained
     *         Entry instances
     */

    public int getEntryCount();

    /**
     * Checks if entry with specified name present
     */

    public boolean hasEntry( final String name );

    /**
     * get a specified Entry by name
     *
     * @param name the name of the Entry to obtain.
     *
     * @return the specified Entry, if it is directly contained in
     *         this DirectoryEntry
     *
     * @exception FileNotFoundException if no Entry with the specified
     *            name exists in this DirectoryEntry
     */

    public Entry getEntry(final String name)
        throws FileNotFoundException;

    /**
     * create a new DocumentEntry
     *
     * @param name the name of the new DocumentEntry
     * @param stream the InputStream from which to create the new
     *               DocumentEntry
     *
     * @return the new DocumentEntry
     *
     * @exception IOException
     */

    public DocumentEntry createDocument(final String name,
                                        final InputStream stream)
        throws IOException;

    /**
     * create a new DocumentEntry; the data will be provided later
     *
     * @param name the name of the new DocumentEntry
     * @param size the size of the new DocumentEntry
     * @param writer the writer of the new DocumentEntry
     *
     * @return the new DocumentEntry
     *
     * @exception IOException
     */

    public DocumentEntry createDocument(final String name, final int size,
                                        final POIFSWriterListener writer)
        throws IOException;

    /**
     * create a new DirectoryEntry
     *
     * @param name the name of the new DirectoryEntry
     *
     * @return the new DirectoryEntry
     *
     * @exception IOException
     */

    public DirectoryEntry createDirectory(final String name)
        throws IOException;

    /**
     * Gets the storage clsid of the directory entry
     *
     * @return storage Class ID
     */
    public ClassID getStorageClsid();

    /**
     * Sets the storage clsid for the directory entry
     *
     * @param clsidStorage storage Class ID
     */
    public void setStorageClsid(ClassID clsidStorage);

}   // end public interface DirectoryEntry