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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
      7  *
      8  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
      9  *
     10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
     11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
     12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
     13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     14  * limitations under the License.
     15  */
     16 
     17 package signature.io;
     18 
     19 import signature.model.IApi;
     20 
     21 import java.io.IOException;
     22 
     23 /**
     24  * This interface is used to write API definitions. Possible implementations of
     25  * this interface use Java serialization to store the API in binary form on the
     26  * disk. An alternative implementation can use ASCII files.
     27  */
     28 public interface IApiExternalizer {
     29     void externalizeApi(String loacation, IApi signature) throws IOException;
     30 }
     31