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Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200, lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE, DEFLATE64, LZ4, Brotli, Zstandard and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.

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package org.apache.commons.compress.parallel;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * 
 * Store intermediate payload in a scatter-gather scenario. Multiple threads write their payload to a backing store, which can subsequently be reversed to an
 * {@link InputStream} to be used as input in the gather phase.
 * 
 *
 * 
 * It is the responsibility of the allocator of an instance of this class to close this. Closing it should clear off any allocated structures and preferably
 * delete files.
 * 
 *
 * @since 1.10
 */
public interface ScatterGatherBackingStore extends Closeable {

    /**
     * Closes this backing store for further writing.
     *
     * @throws IOException when something fails
     */
    void closeForWriting() throws IOException;

    /**
     * An input stream that contains the scattered payload
     *
     * @return An InputStream, should be closed by the caller of this method.
     * @throws IOException when something fails
     */
    InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Writes a piece of payload.
     *
     * @param data   the data to write
     * @param offset offset inside data to start writing from
     * @param length the amount of data to write
     * @throws IOException when something fails
     */
    void writeOut(byte[] data, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
}