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package org.apache.royale.swf.io;

import org.apache.royale.swf.ISWF;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Serialize an {@link ISWF} object to bytes.
 */
public interface ISWFWriter extends Closeable
{
    /**
     * Start writing to output stream.
     * 
     * @param out output stream
     */
    void writeTo(OutputStream out);

    /**
     * Start writing to a file.
     * 
     * @param out The output {@link File}.
     * @return The number of bytes written.
     */
    int writeTo(File out) throws IOException;

}
