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1 /**
2  * @(#)AccessibleStreamable.java 1.3 03/12/19
3  *
4  * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
5  * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
6  */

7
8 package javax.accessibility;
9
10 import java.io.InputStream JavaDoc;
11 import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor JavaDoc;
12
13 /*
14  *
15  * The <code>AccessibleStreamable</code> interface should be implemented
16  * by the <code>AccessibleContext</code> of any component that presents the
17  * raw stream behind a component on the display screen. Examples of such
18  * components are HTML, bitmap images and MathML. An object that implements
19  * <code>AccessibleStreamable</code> provides two things: a list of MIME
20  * types supported by the object and a streaming interface for each MIME type to
21  * get the data.
22  *
23  * @version 1.3 12/19/03
24  * @author Lynn Monsanto
25  * @author Peter Korn
26  *
27  * @see javax.accessibility.AccessibleContext
28  * @since 1.5
29  */

30 public interface AccessibleStreamable {
31     /**
32       * Returns an array of DataFlavor objects for the MIME types
33       * this object supports.
34       *
35       * @return an array of DataFlavor objects for the MIME types
36       * this object supports.
37       */

38      DataFlavor JavaDoc[] getMimeTypes();
39  
40     /**
41       * Returns an InputStream for a DataFlavor
42       *
43       * @param flavor the DataFlavor
44       * @return an ImputStream if an ImputStream for this DataFlavor exists.
45       * Otherwise, null is returned.
46       */

47      InputStream JavaDoc getStream(DataFlavor JavaDoc flavor);
48 }
49
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