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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ *
+ */
+using System;
+using Apache.Qpid.Buffer;
+
+namespace Apache.Qpid.Codec.Demux
+{
+    public interface IMessageDecoder
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Checks the specified buffer is decodable by this decoder.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="buffer">The buffer to read data from.</param>
+        /// <returns>
+        /// OK if this decoder can decode the specified buffer.
+        /// NOT_OK if this decoder cannot decode the specified buffer.
+        /// if more data is required to determine if the
+        /// specified buffer is decodable ({@link #OK}) or not decodable
+        /// {@link #NOT_OK}.</returns>             
+        MessageDecoderResult Decodable(ByteBuffer buffer);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Decodes binary or protocol-specific content into higher-level message objects.
+        /// MINA invokes {@link #decode(IoSession, ByteBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}
+        /// method with read data, and then the decoder implementation puts decoded
+        /// messages into {@link ProtocolDecoderOutput}.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns>
+        /// {@link #OK} if you finished decoding messages successfully.
+        /// {@link #NEED_DATA} if you need more data to finish decoding current message.
+        /// {@link #NOT_OK} if you cannot decode current message due to protocol specification violation.
+        /// </returns>
+        /// <exception cref="Exception">if the read data violated protocol specification </exception>     
+        MessageDecoderResult Decode(ByteBuffer buffer, IProtocolDecoderOutput output);
+    }
+}
+
+