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package org.jvnet.fastinfoset.sax;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
/**
* Interface for a list of XML attributes that may contain encoding algorithm
* data.
*
* Implementations shall ensure that the {@link Attributes#getValue(int)} method
* correctly returns a String object even if the attribute is represented
* as algorithm data.
*
* If an attribute has algorithm data then the {@link #getAlgorithmData} method
* shall return a non null value.
*
* @see org.jvnet.fastinfoset.sax.FastInfosetReader
* @see org.xml.sax.XMLReader
*/
public interface EncodingAlgorithmAttributes extends Attributes {
/**
* Return the URI of the encoding algorithm.
*
*
If the algorithm data corresponds to a built-in encoding algorithm
* then the null is returned.
*
* If the algorithm data corresponds to an application-defined encoding
* algorithm then the URI of the algorithm is returned.
*
* If {@link #getAlgorithmData(int)} returns null then the result of
* this method is undefined.
*
* @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
* @return The URI. If the index is out of range then null is returned.
*/
public String getAlgorithmURI(int index);
/**
* Return the index of the encoding algorithm.
*
*
If {@link #getAlgorithmData(int)} returns null then the result of
* this method is undefined.
*
* @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
* @return The algorithm index. If index is out of range then -1 is returned.
* @see org.jvnet.fastinfoset.EncodingAlgorithmIndexes
*/
public int getAlgorithmIndex(int index);
/**
* Return the data of the encoding algorithm.
*
*
If the algorithm data corresponds to a built-in encoding algorithm
* then an Object corresponding to the Java primitive type is returned.
*
* If the algorithm data corresponds to an application-defined encoding
* algorithm then an Object that is an instance of byte[]
* is returned if there is no EncodingAlgorithm registered for the
* application-defined encoding algorithm URI. Otherwise, an Object produced
* from the registeredEncodingAlgorithm is returned.
*
* If there no encoding algorithm data associated an attribute then
* null is returned.
*
* @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
* @return The data. If the index is out of range then null is returned.
*/
public Object getAlgorithmData(int index);
/**
* Return the alphabet associated with the attribute value.
*
* @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
* @return The alphabet.
* If the index is out of range then null is returned.
* If there is is no alphabet then null is returned.
*/
public String getAlpababet(int index);
/**
* Return the whether the attribute value should be indexed or not.
*
* @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
* @return True if attribute value should be indexed, otherwise false.
*/
public boolean getToIndex(int index);
}