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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.xmlgraphics.io;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Implementations of this interface resolve URIs for temporary files used by XGC. The temporary-
 * resource URI scheme comes from {@link TempResourceURIGenerator#TMP_SCHEME}.
 */
public interface TempResourceResolver {

    /**
     * Get a temporary-resource given the identifier pointing to said resource.
     *
     * @param id the resource identifier
     * @return the resource
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occured during resource acquisition
     */
    Resource getResource(String id) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Gets an temporary-output stream of a given identifier.
     *
     * @param id the output stream identifier
     * @return the output stream
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occured while creating an output stream
     */
    OutputStream getOutputStream(String id) throws IOException;
}
