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 * Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Schlichtherle IT Services
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package de.schlichtherle.io.rof;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A minimal interface to allow random read only access to a file.
 * This interface is required by the class {@link java.util.zip.ZipFile} to
 * read a ZIP compatible file which may or may not be encrypted.
 *
 * @author Christian Schlichtherle
 * @version $Id: ReadOnlyFile.java,v 1.4 2010/08/20 13:09:47 christian_schlichtherle Exp $
 */
public interface ReadOnlyFile {

    long length() throws IOException;

    long getFilePointer() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Sets the file pointer offset, measured from the beginning of this 
     * file, at which the next read occurs.
     * Whether the offset may be set beyond the end of the file is up to
     * the implementor.
     * For example, the {@link SimpleReadOnlyFile} subclasses
     * {@link java.io.RandomAccessFile} and passes {@code "r"} as a
     * parameter to the superclass constructor.
     * On the Windows platform, this implementation allows to seek past the
     * end of file, but on the Linux platform it doesn't.
     *
     * @param pos The offset position, measured in bytes from the beginning
     *        of the file, at which to set the file pointer.
     * @throws IOException If {@code pos} is less than {@code 0} or if
     *         an I/O error occurs.
     */
    void seek(long pos) throws IOException;

    int read() throws IOException;

    int read(byte[] b) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Reads up to {@code len} bytes of data from this read only file into
     * the given array.
     * This method blocks until at least one byte of input is available.
     *
     * @param b The buffer to fill with data.
     * @param off The start offset of the data.
     * @param len The maximum number of bytes to read.
     *
     * @return The total number of bytes read, or {@code -1} if there is
     *         no more data because the end of the file has been reached.
     *
     * @throws IOException On any I/O related issue.
     */
    int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException;

    void readFully(byte[] b) throws IOException;

    void readFully(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException;

    /** @deprecated Use {@link #seek} instead. */
    int skipBytes(int n) throws IOException;

    void close() throws IOException;
}