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OREKIT (ORbits Extrapolation KIT) is a low level space dynamics library. It provides basic elements (orbits, dates, attitude, frames ...) and various algorithms to handle them (conversions, analytical and numerical propagation, pointing ...).

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package org.orekit.data;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.text.ParseException;

/** Interface for loading data files from {@link DataProvider data providers}.
 * @see DataProvider
 * @author Luc Maisonobe
 */
public interface DataLoader {

    /** Check if the loader still accepts new data.
     * 
     * This method is used to speed up data loading by interrupting crawling
     * the data sets as soon as a loader has found the data it was waiting for.
     * For loaders that can merge data from any number of sources (for example
     * JPL ephemerides or Earth Orientation Parameters that are split among
     * several files), this method should always return true to make sure no
     * data is left over.
     * 
     * @return true while the loader still accepts new data
     */
    boolean stillAcceptsData();

    /** Load data from a stream.
     * @param input data input stream
     * @param name name of the file (or zip entry)
     * @exception IOException if data can't be read
     * @exception ParseException if data can't be parsed
     * or if some loader specific error occurs
     */
    void loadData(InputStream input, String name)
        throws IOException, ParseException;

}