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// Mozilla has modified this file - see http://hg.mozilla.org/ for details.
/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
* The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
* (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
* the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package org.mozilla.apache.commons.codec;
/**
* Defines common decoding methods for byte array decoders.
*
* @author Apache Software Foundation
* @version $Id: BinaryDecoder.java 1075406 2011-02-28 16:18:26Z ggregory $
*/
public interface BinaryDecoder extends Decoder {
/**
* Decodes a byte array and returns the results as a byte array.
*
* @param source A byte array which has been encoded with the
* appropriate encoder
*
* @return a byte array that contains decoded content
*
* @throws DecoderException A decoder exception is thrown
* if a Decoder encounters a failure condition during
* the decode process.
*/
byte[] decode(byte[] source) throws DecoderException;
}
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