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package org.ajax4jsf.framework.resource;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;

/**
 * "Brige" for concrete resource types - images, scripts, styles.
 * @author [email protected] (latest modification by $Author: alexsmirnov $)
 * @version $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2006/09/04 10:47:47 $
 *
 */
public interface ResourceRenderer {
	
	/**
	 * @return content type ( image/jpeg , text/javascript etc. ) for given type.
	 */
	String getContentType();

	/**
	 * Encode concrete HTML element for resource. 
	 * @param context
	 * @param data
	 * @throws IOException 
	 */
	void encode(InternetResource resource, FacesContext context, Object data) throws IOException;

	/**
	 * Encode concrete HTML element for resource. 
	 * @param context
	 * @param data
	 * @throws IOException 
	 */
	void encode(InternetResource resource, FacesContext context, Object data, Map attributes) throws IOException;

	void encodeBegin(InternetResource base, FacesContext context, Object data, Map attributes) throws IOException;

	void encodeEnd(InternetResource base, FacesContext context, Object data) throws IOException;
	
	/**
	 * @return true, if resource must be rendered in faces request cicle.
	 */
	public boolean requireFacesContext();

	/**
	 * Send incapsulated resource to client by {@link ResourceContext} .
	 * Perform any conversions, nessesary for this resources ( template interpretations, JavaScript conversions etc )
	 * @param context
	 * @return TODO
	 */
	public int send(InternetResource base,ResourceContext context) throws IOException;

	/**
	 * Get data to build URI for given resource. Can be any Serialisable object,
	 * @param base TODO
	 * @return data for Store in URI/ Cache key.
	 */
	public Object getData(InternetResource base, FacesContext context, Object data);

}