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package org.tigris.subversion.javahl;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface for data to be received from subversion
 * used for SVNAdmin.load and SVNAdmin.dump
 */
public interface InputInterface
{
    /**
     * read the number of data.length bytes from input.
     * @param data          array to store the read bytes.
     * @throws IOException  throw in case of problems.
     */
    public int read(byte [] data) throws IOException;

    /**
     * close the input
     * @throws IOException throw in case of problems.
     */
    public void close() throws IOException;
}