/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.pde.core;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
/**
* Classes that implement this interface can participate in saving the model to
* the ASCII output stream using the provided writer.
*
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface IWritable {
/**
* Writes the ASCII representation of the writable into the provider writer.
* The writable should use the provided indent to write the stream starting
* from the specified column number. Indent string should be written to the
* writer after every new line.
*
* @param indent
* a string that should be added after each new line to maintain
* desired horizontal alignment
* @param writer
* a writer to be used to write this object's textual
* representation
*/
void write(String indent, PrintWriter writer);
}
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