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package java.io;

/**

 * The <code>DataInput</code> interface provides

 * for reading bytes from a binary stream and

 * reconstructing from them data in any of

 * the Java primitive types. There is also

 * a

 * facility for reconstructing a <code>String</code>

 * from data in

 * <a href="#modified-utf-8">modified UTF-8</a>

 * format.

 * <p>

 * It is generally true of all the reading

 * routines in this interface that if end of

 * file is reached before the desired number

 * of bytes has been read, an <code>EOFException</code>

 * (which is a kind of <code>IOException</code>)

 * is thrown. If any byte cannot be read for

 * any reason other than end of file, an <code>IOException</code>

 * other than <code>EOFException</code> is

 * thrown. In particular, an <code>IOException</code>

 * may be thrown if the input stream has been

 * closed.

 *

 * <h4><a name="modified-utf-8">Modified UTF-8</a></h4>

 * <p>

 * Implementations of the DataInput and DataOutput interfaces represent

 * Unicode strings in a format that is a slight modification of UTF-8.

 * (For information regarding the standard UTF-8 format, see section

 * <i>3.9 Unicode Encoding Forms</i> of <i>The Unicode Standard, Version

 * 4.0</i>).

 * Note that in the following tables, the most significant bit appears in the

 * far left-hand column.

 * <p>

 * All characters in the range <code>'&#92;u0001'</code> to

 * <code>'&#92;u007F'</code> are represented by a single byte:

 *

 * <blockquote>

 *   <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" width="50%"

 *          summary="Bit values and bytes">

 *     <tr>

 *       <td></td>

 *       <th id="bit">Bit Values</th>

 *     </tr>

 *     <tr>

 *       <th id="byte1">Byte 1</th>

 *       <td>

 *         <table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

 *           <tr>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>0</center>

 *             <td colspan="7"><center>bits 6-0</center>

 *           </tr>

 *         </table>

 *       </td>

 *     </tr>

 *   </table>

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * <p>

 * The null character <code>'&#92;u0000'</code> and characters in the

 * range <code>'&#92;u0080'</code> to <code>'&#92;u07FF'</code> are

 * represented by a pair of bytes:

 *

 * <blockquote>

 *   <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" width="50%"

 *          summary="Bit values and bytes">

 *     <tr>

 *       <td></td>

 *       <th id="bit">Bit Values</th>

 *     </tr>

 *     <tr>

 *       <th id="byte1">Byte 1</th>

 *       <td>

 *         <table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

 *           <tr>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="13%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>0</center>

 *             <td colspan="5"><center>bits 10-6</center>

 *           </tr>

 *         </table>

 *       </td>

 *     </tr>

 *     <tr>

 *       <th id="byte2">Byte 2</th>

 *       <td>

 *         <table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

 *           <tr>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="13%"><center>0</center>

 *             <td colspan="6"><center>bits 5-0</center>

 *           </tr>

 *         </table>

 *       </td>

 *     </tr>

 *   </table>

 *  </blockquote>

 *

 * <br>

 * <code>char</code> values in the range <code>'&#92;u0800'</code> to

 * <code>'&#92;uFFFF'</code> are represented by three bytes:

 *

 * <blockquote>

 *   <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" width="50%"

 *          summary="Bit values and bytes">

 *     <tr>

 *       <td></td>

 *       <th id="bit">Bit Values</th>

 *     </tr>

 *     <tr>

 *       <th id="byte1">Byte 1</th>

 *       <td>

 *         <table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

 *           <tr>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="13%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="13%"><center>0</center>

 *             <td colspan="4"><center>bits 15-12</center>

 *           </tr>

 *         </table>

 *       </td>

 *     </tr>

 *     <tr>

 *       <th id="byte2">Byte 2</th>

 *       <td>

 *         <table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

 *           <tr>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="13%"><center>0</center>

 *             <td colspan="6"><center>bits 11-6</center>

 *           </tr>

 *         </table>

 *       </td>

 *     </tr>

 *     <tr>

 *       <th id="byte3">Byte 3</th>

 *       <td>

 *         <table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

 *           <tr>

 *             <td width="12%"><center>1</center>

 *             <td width="13%"><center>0</center>

 *             <td colspan="6"><center>bits 5-0</center>

 *           </tr>

 *         </table>

 *       </td>

 *     </tr>

 *   </table>

 *  </blockquote>

 *

 * <p>

 * The differences between this format and the

 * standard UTF-8 format are the following:

 * <ul>

 * <li>The null byte <code>'&#92;u0000'</code> is encoded in 2-byte format

 *     rather than 1-byte, so that the encoded strings never have

 *     embedded nulls.

 * <li>Only the 1-byte, 2-byte, and 3-byte formats are used.

 * <li><a href="../lang/Character.html#unicode">Supplementary characters</a>

 *     are represented in the form of surrogate pairs.

 * </ul>

 * @author  Frank Yellin

 * @see     java.io.DataInputStream

 * @see     java.io.DataOutput

 * @since   JDK1.0

 */

public

interface DataInput {

    /**

     * Reads some bytes from an input

     * stream and stores them into the buffer

     * array <code>b</code>. The number of bytes

     * read is equal

     * to the length of <code>b</code>.

     * <p>

     * This method blocks until one of the

     * following conditions occurs:<p>

     * <ul>

     * <li><code>b.length</code>

     * bytes of input data are available, in which

     * case a normal return is made.

     *

     * <li>End of

     * file is detected, in which case an <code>EOFException</code>

     * is thrown.

     *

     * <li>An I/O error occurs, in

     * which case an <code>IOException</code> other

     * than <code>EOFException</code> is thrown.

     * </ul>

     * <p>

     * If <code>b</code> is <code>null</code>,

     * a <code>NullPointerException</code> is thrown.

     * If <code>b.length</code> is zero, then

     * no bytes are read. Otherwise, the first

     * byte read is stored into element <code>b[0]</code>,

     * the next one into <code>b[1]</code>, and

     * so on.

     * If an exception is thrown from

     * this method, then it may be that some but

     * not all bytes of <code>b</code> have been

     * updated with data from the input stream.

     *

     * @param     b   the buffer into which the data is read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    void readFully(byte b[]) throws IOException;

    /**

     *

     * Reads <code>len</code>

     * bytes from

     * an input stream.

     * <p>

     * This method

     * blocks until one of the following conditions

     * occurs:<p>

     * <ul>

     * <li><code>len</code> bytes

     * of input data are available, in which case

     * a normal return is made.

     *

     * <li>End of file

     * is detected, in which case an <code>EOFException</code>

     * is thrown.

     *

     * <li>An I/O error occurs, in

     * which case an <code>IOException</code> other

     * than <code>EOFException</code> is thrown.

     * </ul>

     * <p>

     * If <code>b</code> is <code>null</code>,

     * a <code>NullPointerException</code> is thrown.

     * If <code>off</code> is negative, or <code>len</code>

     * is negative, or <code>off+len</code> is

     * greater than the length of the array <code>b</code>,

     * then an <code>IndexOutOfBoundsException</code>

     * is thrown.

     * If <code>len</code> is zero,

     * then no bytes are read. Otherwise, the first

     * byte read is stored into element <code>b[off]</code>,

     * the next one into <code>b[off+1]</code>,

     * and so on. The number of bytes read is,

     * at most, equal to <code>len</code>.

     *

     * @param     b   the buffer into which the data is read.

     * @param off  an int specifying the offset into the data.

     * @param len  an int specifying the number of bytes to read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    void readFully(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException;

    /**

     * Makes an attempt to skip over

     * <code>n</code> bytes

     * of data from the input

     * stream, discarding the skipped bytes. However,

     * it may skip

     * over some smaller number of

     * bytes, possibly zero. This may result from

     * any of a

     * number of conditions; reaching

     * end of file before <code>n</code> bytes

     * have been skipped is

     * only one possibility.

     * This method never throws an <code>EOFException</code>.

     * The actual

     * number of bytes skipped is returned.

     *

     * @param      n   the number of bytes to be skipped.

     * @return     the number of bytes actually skipped.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    int skipBytes(int n) throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads one input byte and returns

     * <code>true</code> if that byte is nonzero,

     * <code>false</code> if that byte is zero.

     * This method is suitable for reading

     * the byte written by the <code>writeBoolean</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the <code>boolean</code> value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    boolean readBoolean() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads and returns one input byte.

     * The byte is treated as a signed value in

     * the range <code>-128</code> through <code>127</code>,

     * inclusive.

     * This method is suitable for

     * reading the byte written by the <code>writeByte</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the 8-bit value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    byte readByte() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads one input byte, zero-extends

     * it to type <code>int</code>, and returns

     * the result, which is therefore in the range

     * <code>0</code>

     * through <code>255</code>.

     * This method is suitable for reading

     * the byte written by the <code>writeByte</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>

     * if the argument to <code>writeByte</code>

     * was intended to be a value in the range

     * <code>0</code> through <code>255</code>.

     *

     * @return     the unsigned 8-bit value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    int readUnsignedByte() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads two input bytes and returns

     * a <code>short</code> value. Let <code>a</code>

     * be the first byte read and <code>b</code>

     * be the second byte. The value

     * returned

     * is:

     * <p><pre><code>(short)((a &lt;&lt; 8) | (b &amp; 0xff))

     * </code></pre>

     * This method

     * is suitable for reading the bytes written

     * by the <code>writeShort</code> method of

     * interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the 16-bit value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    short readShort() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads two input bytes and returns

     * an <code>int</code> value in the range <code>0</code>

     * through <code>65535</code>. Let <code>a</code>

     * be the first byte read and

     * <code>b</code>

     * be the second byte. The value returned is:

     * <p><pre><code>(((a &amp; 0xff) &lt;&lt; 8) | (b &amp; 0xff))

     * </code></pre>

     * This method is suitable for reading the bytes

     * written by the <code>writeShort</code> method

     * of interface <code>DataOutput</code>  if

     * the argument to <code>writeShort</code>

     * was intended to be a value in the range

     * <code>0</code> through <code>65535</code>.

     *

     * @return     the unsigned 16-bit value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    int readUnsignedShort() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads two input bytes and returns a <code>char</code> value.

     * Let <code>a</code>

     * be the first byte read and <code>b</code>

     * be the second byte. The value

     * returned is:

     * <p><pre><code>(char)((a &lt;&lt; 8) | (b &amp; 0xff))

     * </code></pre>

     * This method

     * is suitable for reading bytes written by

     * the <code>writeChar</code> method of interface

     * <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the <code>char</code> value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    char readChar() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads four input bytes and returns an

     * <code>int</code> value. Let <code>a-d</code>

     * be the first through fourth bytes read. The value returned is:

     * <p><pre>

     * <code>

     * (((a & 0xff) << 24) | ((b & 0xff) << 16) |

     *  ((c & 0xff) << 8) | (d & 0xff))

     * </code></pre>

     * This method is suitable

     * for reading bytes written by the <code>writeInt</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the <code>int</code> value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    int readInt() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads eight input bytes and returns

     * a <code>long</code> value. Let <code>a-h</code>

     * be the first through eighth bytes read.

     * The value returned is:

     * <p><pre> <code>

     * (((long)(a & 0xff) << 56) |

     *  ((long)(b & 0xff) << 48) |

     *  ((long)(c & 0xff) << 40) |

     *  ((long)(d & 0xff) << 32) |

     *  ((long)(e & 0xff) << 24) |

     *  ((long)(f & 0xff) << 16) |

     *  ((long)(g & 0xff) <<  8) |

     *  ((long)(h & 0xff)))

     * </code></pre>

     * <p>

     * This method is suitable

     * for reading bytes written by the <code>writeLong</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the <code>long</code> value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    long readLong() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads four input bytes and returns

     * a <code>float</code> value. It does this

     * by first constructing an <code>int</code>

     * value in exactly the manner

     * of the <code>readInt</code>

     * method, then converting this <code>int</code>

     * value to a <code>float</code> in

     * exactly the manner of the method <code>Float.intBitsToFloat</code>.

     * This method is suitable for reading

     * bytes written by the <code>writeFloat</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the <code>float</code> value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    float readFloat() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads eight input bytes and returns

     * a <code>double</code> value. It does this

     * by first constructing a <code>long</code>

     * value in exactly the manner

     * of the <code>readlong</code>

     * method, then converting this <code>long</code>

     * value to a <code>double</code> in exactly

     * the manner of the method <code>Double.longBitsToDouble</code>.

     * This method is suitable for reading

     * bytes written by the <code>writeDouble</code>

     * method of interface <code>DataOutput</code>.

     *

     * @return     the <code>double</code> value read.

     * @exception  EOFException  if this stream reaches the end before reading

     *               all the bytes.

     * @exception  IOException   if an I/O error occurs.

     */

    double readDouble() throws IOException;

    /**

     * Reads the next line of text from the input stream.

     * It reads successive bytes, converting

     * each byte separately into a character,

     * until it encounters a line terminator or

     * end of

     * file; the characters read are then

     * returned as a <code>String</code>. Note

     * that because this

     * method processes bytes,

     * it does not support input of the full Unicode

     * character set.

     * <p>

     * If end of file is encountered

     * before even one byte can be read, then <code>null</code>

     * is returned. Otherwise, each byte that is

     * read is converted to type <code>char</code>

     * by zero-extension. If the character <code>'\n'</code>

     * is encountered, it is discarded and reading

     * ceases. If the character <code>'\r'</code>

     * is encountered, it is discarded and, if