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package org.apache.wicket.util.resource;

import org.apache.wicket.request.Response;

/**
 * Special IResourceStream implementation that a Resource can return when it directly wants to write
 * to an output stream instead of return the {@link IResourceStream#getInputStream()}. That one can
 * return null for a IResourceStreamWriter.
 * 
 * This behavior comes in use when the resource is generated on the fly and should be streamed
 * directly to the client so that it won't be buffered completely if the generated resource is
 * really big.
 * 
 * @author jcompagner
 */
public interface IResourceStreamWriter extends IResourceStream
{
	/**
	 * Implement this method to write the resource data directly the the given OutputStream.
	 * 
	 * @param output
	 *            The response where the resource can write its content into.
	 */
	void write(Response output);
}