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module com {  module sun {  module star {  module document {


/**
    <p>This interface encapsulates functionality to get/resolve binary data streams.
    It is used to transform binary data to a URL or to transform a URL to binary
    data. The binary data is represented through input and output streams.</p>

    <p>In the case of transforming a URL to binary data, the <code>getInputStream</code>
    method is used. This returns a com::sun::star::io::XInputStream
    from which the binary data, transformed from the given URL, can be read.</p>

    <p>In the case of transforming binary data to a URL, a
    com::sun::star::io::XOutputStream is created first to write
    the binary data to. After this, the <code>resolveOutputStream</code> method can
    be used to transform the binary data, represented through the
    com::sun::star::io::XOutputStream interface, to a URL.</p>
 */
published interface XBinaryStreamResolver: com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
{
    /** converts the given URL from the source URL namespace to an input stream,
        from which binary data can be read
    */
    com::sun::star::io::XInputStream getInputStream( [in] string aURL );

    /** creates an output stream, to which binary data can be written.
        After writing, a URL can be retrieved by a call to
        XBinaryStreamResolver::resolveOutputStream().
    */
    com::sun::star::io::XOutputStream createOutputStream();

    /** converts the output stream, data has been written to, to a URL in
        source URL namespace.
    */
    string resolveOutputStream( [in] com::sun::star::io::XOutputStream aBinaryStream );
};


}; }; }; };

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