/**
* @(#)AccessibleStreamable.java 1.5 06/04/07
*
* Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
*/
package javax.accessibility;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
/**
*
* The <code>AccessibleStreamable</code> interface should be implemented
* by the <code>AccessibleContext</code> of any component that presents the
* raw stream behind a component on the display screen. Examples of such
* components are HTML, bitmap images and MathML. An object that implements
* <code>AccessibleStreamable</code> provides two things: a list of MIME
* types supported by the object and a streaming interface for each MIME type to
* get the data.
*
* @version 1.5 04/07/06
* @author Lynn Monsanto
* @author Peter Korn
*
* @see javax.accessibility.AccessibleContext
* @since 1.5
*/
public interface AccessibleStreamable {
/**
* Returns an array of DataFlavor objects for the MIME types
* this object supports.
*
* @return an array of DataFlavor objects for the MIME types
* this object supports.
*/
DataFlavor[] getMimeTypes();
/**
* Returns an InputStream for a DataFlavor
*
* @param flavor the DataFlavor
* @return an ImputStream if an ImputStream for this DataFlavor exists.
* Otherwise, null is returned.
*/
InputStream getStream(DataFlavor flavor);
}