/*
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 *
 * Copyright (C) 2007 Kazutoshi Satoda
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or any later version.
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 */

package org.gjt.sp.jedit.io;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * An interface to detect a reasonable encoding from some bytes at the
 * beginning of a file. To offer your own EncodingDetector, implement this 
 * interface and define a service in your <tt>services.xml</tt> file. 
 * For example:<pre>
&lt;SERVICE CLASS=&quot;org.gjt.sp.jedit.io.EncodingDetector&quot; NAME=&quot;XML-PI&quot;&gt;
	new XMLEncodingDetector();
&lt;/SERVICE&gt; </pre>
 * 
 * @since 4.3pre10
 * @author Kazutoshi Satoda
 */
public interface EncodingDetector
{
	/**
	 * Returns the name of a detected encoding for the bytes in sample.
	 * Returns null if this instance could not detect reasonable one.
	 */
	public String detectEncoding(InputStream sample) throws IOException;
}