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package org.apache.james.imap.encode;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.james.imap.message.Literal;

/**
 * 
 * Writes IMAP response.
 * 
 * 
 * Factors out basic IMAP reponse writing operations from higher level ones.
 * 
 */
public interface ImapResponseWriter {

    /**
     * Writes literal content to the client
     * 
     * @param literal
     *            Literal to be written, not null
     */
    void write(Literal literal) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Write a byte[] to the client
     * 
     * @param buffer
     *            byte array to be written, not null
     */
    void write(byte[] buffer) throws IOException;

}