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package org.eclipse.core.runtime.content;

import org.eclipse.core.internal.content.IContentConstants;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.QualifiedName;

/**
 * A content description object contains information about the nature of
 * arbitrary data.
 * 
 * A content description object will always include the content type for the
 * examined contents, and may also include information on:
 * 
 * 
 * charset;
 * byte order mark;
 * other custom properties provided by third-party plug-ins.
 * 
 * 
 * Content describers provided by plug-ins will fill in most of the
 * properties in a content description object, except for the content type,
 * what is done by the platform. After a content
 * description is filled in by a content interpreter, it is marked as immutable
 * by the platform, so calling any of the mutator methods defined in this
 * interface will cause an IllegalStateException to be thrown.
 * 
 * 
 * Default values for properties can be contributed by plug-ins as part of
 * the content type definition markup.
 * 
 * 
 * This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
 * 
 *
 * @see IContentDescriber
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface IContentDescription {
	/**
	 * Key for the "charset" property.
	 */
	QualifiedName CHARSET = new QualifiedName(IContentConstants.RUNTIME_NAME, "charset"); //$NON-NLS-1$
	/**
	 * Key for the "byte order mark" property. This property is only meaningful
	 * when describing byte streams.
	 */
	QualifiedName BYTE_ORDER_MARK = new QualifiedName(IContentConstants.RUNTIME_NAME, "bom"); //$NON-NLS-1$
	/**
	 * Options constant meaning that all properties should be described.
	 */
	QualifiedName[] ALL = null;
	/**
	 * Constant that identifies the Byte-Order-Mark for contents encoded with
	 * the UTF-8 character encoding scheme.
	 */
	byte[] BOM_UTF_8 = {(byte) 0xEF, (byte) 0xBB, (byte) 0xBF};
	/**
	 * Constant that identifies the Byte-Order-Mark for contents encoded with
	 * the UTF-16 Big Endian character encoding scheme.
	 */
	byte[] BOM_UTF_16BE = {(byte) 0xFE, (byte) 0xFF};
	/**
	 * Constant that identifies the Byte-Order-Mark for contents encoded with
	 * the UTF-16 Little Endian character encoding scheme.
	 */
	byte[] BOM_UTF_16LE = {(byte) 0xFF, (byte) 0xFE};

	/**
	 * Returns whether the given property is requested to be described. This
	 * method is intended to allow content describers to determine  which
	 * properties should be described.
	 *
	 * @param key a key for the property to be verified
	 * @return true if the property is to be described,
	 * false otherwise
	 */
	boolean isRequested(QualifiedName key);

	/**
	 * Returns the charset name to be used when reading the contents
	 * described by this object.
	 * 
	 * If a Unicode byte order mark has been found (the
	 * BYTE_ORDER_MARK property has been set),
	 * a corresponding charset name will be returned (e.g. "UTF-8",
	 * "UTF-16"). Otherwise, the value of the CHARSET
	 * property will be returned.
	 * 
	 * @return a charset name, or null
	 */
	String getCharset();

	/**
	 * Returns the content type detected. Returns null if the
	 * content type could not be determined.
	 *
	 * @return the corresponding content type, or null
	 */
	IContentType getContentType();

	/**
	 * Returns the value of custom property set by the content describer,
	 * or the default value for the property, if one has been defined.
	 * 
	 * The qualifier part of the property name must be the unique identifier
	 * of the declaring plug-in (e.g. "com.example.plugin").
	 * 
	 *
	 * @param key the property key
	 * @return the property value, or null, if the property is not
	 * found
	 */
	Object getProperty(QualifiedName key);

	/**
	 * Sets the given property to the given value.
	 * 
	 * The qualifier part of the property name must be the unique identifier
	 * of the declaring plug-in (e.g. "com.example.plugin").
	 * 
	 * 
	 * This method should not be called by clients other than content
	 * describers. An attempt to set a property from other contexts will cause
	 * an IllegalStateException to be thrown.
	 * 
	 *
	 * @param key the qualified name of the property
	 * @param value the property value, or null,
	 * if the property is to be removed
	 * @throws IllegalStateException if called after this description has been
	 * filled in
	 */
	void setProperty(QualifiedName key, Object value);
}