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package net.minidev.json.parser;

/*
 *    Copyright 2011 JSON-SMART authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A simplified and stoppable SAX-like content handler for stream processing of
 * JSON text.
 * 
 * @see org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
 * 
 * @author FangYidong
 */
public interface ContentHandler {
	/**
	 * Receive notification of the beginning of JSON processing. The parser will
	 * invoke this method only once.
	 * 
	 * @throws ParseException
	 *             - JSONParser will stop and throw the same exception to the
	 *             caller when receiving this exception.
	 */
	void startJSON() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the end of JSON processing.
	 * 
	 * @throws ParseException
	 */
	void endJSON() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the beginning of a JSON object.
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 *             - JSONParser will stop and throw the same exception to the
	 *             caller when receiving this exception.
	 * @see #endJSON
	 */
	boolean startObject() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the end of a JSON object.
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 * 
	 * @see #startObject
	 */
	boolean endObject() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the beginning of a JSON object entry.
	 * 
	 * @param key
	 *            - Key of a JSON object entry.
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 * 
	 * @see #endObjectEntry
	 */
	boolean startObjectEntry(String key) throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the end of the value of previous object entry.
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 * 
	 * @see #startObjectEntry
	 */
	boolean endObjectEntry() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the beginning of a JSON array.
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 * 
	 * @see #endArray
	 */
	boolean startArray() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the end of a JSON array.
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 * 
	 * @see #startArray
	 */
	boolean endArray() throws ParseException, IOException;

	/**
	 * Receive notification of the JSON primitive values: java.lang.String,
	 * java.lang.Number, java.lang.Boolean null
	 * 
	 * @param value
	 *            - Instance of the following: java.lang.String,
	 *            java.lang.Number, java.lang.Boolean null
	 * 
	 * @return false if the handler wants to stop parsing after return.
	 * @throws ParseException
	 */
	boolean primitive(Object value) throws ParseException, IOException;

}