1 /**
2 *
3 * Copyright 2003-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 */
17
18 package org.apache.geronimo.mail.util;
19
20 import java.io.IOException;
21 import java.io.OutputStream;
22
23 /**
24 * Encode and decode byte arrays (typically from binary to 7-bit ASCII
25 * encodings).
26 */
27 public interface Encoder
28 {
29 int encode(byte[] data, int off, int length, OutputStream out) throws IOException;
30
31 int decode(byte[] data, int off, int length, OutputStream out) throws IOException;
32
33 int decode(String data, OutputStream out) throws IOException;
34 }