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+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package org.libreoffice.report;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * A repository for writing. Providing a repository always assumes,
+ * that more than one stream can be written.
+ *
+ */
+public interface OutputRepository
+{
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an output stream for writing the data. If there is an entry with
+     * that name already contained in the repository, try to overwrite it.
+     *
+     * @param name
+     *    the name of the output stream
+     * @param mimeType
+     *    the mime type of the to-be-created output stream. Repository implementations which do not support
+     *    associating a mime time with a stream might ignore this parameter.
+     * @return the outputstream
+     * @throws IOException if opening the stream fails
+     */
+    OutputStream createOutputStream(final String name, final String mimeType) throws IOException;
+
+    /** allows to access sub repositories inside this repository
+     *
+     * @param name describes the path to the sub repository
+     * @param mimeType
+     * @return the sub repository
+     * @throws java.io.IOException when the sub repository doesn't exist.
+     */
+    OutputRepository openOutputRepository(final String name, final String mimeType) throws IOException;
+
+    boolean exists(final String name);
+
+    boolean existsStorage(final String name);
+
+
+
+    void closeOutputRepository();
+}