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+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.framing;
+
+import org.apache.mina.common.ByteBuffer;
+
+/**
+ * There will be an implementation of this interface for each content type. All content types have associated
+ * header properties and this provides a way to encode and decode them.
+ */
+public interface ContentHeaderProperties
+{
+    /**
+     * Writes the property list to the buffer, in a suitably encoded form.
+     * @param buffer The buffer to write to
+     */
+    void writePropertyListPayload(ByteBuffer buffer);
+
+    /**
+     * Populates the properties from buffer.
+     * @param buffer The buffer to read from.
+     * @param propertyFlags he property flags.
+     * @throws AMQFrameDecodingException when the buffer does not contain valid data
+     */
+    void populatePropertiesFromBuffer(ByteBuffer buffer, int propertyFlags, int size)
+        throws AMQFrameDecodingException;
+
+    /**
+     * @return the size of the encoded property list in bytes.
+     */
+    int getPropertyListSize();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the property flags. Property flags indicate which properties are set in the list. The
+     * position and meaning of each flag is defined in the protocol specification for the particular
+     * content type with which these properties are associated.
+     * @return flags
+     */
+    int getPropertyFlags();
+}