1   /*
    2    * $HeadURL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/tags/4.0.1/httpcore/src/main/java/org/apache/http/io/HttpMessageWriter.java $
    3    * $Revision: 744527 $
    4    * $Date: 2009-02-14 18:06:25 +0100 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) $
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   31   
   32   package org.apache.http.io;
   33   
   34   import java.io.IOException;
   35   
   36   import org.apache.http.HttpException;
   37   import org.apache.http.HttpMessage;
   38   
   39   /**
   40    * Abstract message writer intended to serialize HTTP messages to an arbitrary 
   41    * data sink. 
   42    *
   43    *
   44    * @version $Revision: 744527 $
   45    * 
   46    * @since 4.0
   47    */
   48   public interface HttpMessageWriter {
   49       
   50       /**
   51        * Serializes an instance of {@link HttpMessage} to the underlying data
   52        * sink.
   53        * 
   54        * @param message
   55        * @throws IOException in case of an I/O error
   56        * @throws HttpException in case of HTTP protocol violation
   57        */
   58       void write(HttpMessage message)
   59           throws IOException, HttpException;
   60       
   61   }