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package com.sun.star.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.
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner
 */
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 acces 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);

    boolean isWritable(final String name);

    void closeOutputRepository();
}