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#ifndef Ppr_IOutputStream_hpp_
#define Ppr_IOutputStream_hpp_

// Turn off warning message for ignored exception specification
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#pragma warning( disable : 4290 )
#endif

#include <string>
#include "ppr/io/IOException.hpp"
#include "ppr/util/ifr/p"

namespace apache
{
  namespace ppr
  {
    namespace io
    {
      using namespace std;
      using namespace ifr;

/*
 * The IOutputStream interface provides for converting data from any of the
 * C++ primitive types to a series of bytes and writing these bytes to
 * a binary stream. Strings are written as raw bytes, no character
 * encoding is performed. If a byte cannot be written for any reason,
 * an IOException is thrown. 
 */
struct IOutputStream : Interface
{
    virtual void close() throw(IOException) = 0 ;
    virtual void flush() throw(IOException) = 0 ;
    virtual int write(const char* buffer, int offset, int length) throw(IOException) = 0 ;
} ;

/* namespace */
    }
  }
}

#endif /*Ppr_IOutputStream_hpp_*/