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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.Collections;
+using Apache.Qpid.Framing;
+
+namespace Apache.Qpid.Client.Message
+{
+    public interface IMessageFactory
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Create a message
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="deliverTag">Delivery Tag</param>
+        /// <param name="messageNbr">Message Sequence Number</param>
+        /// <param name="redelivered">True if this is a redelivered message</param>
+        /// <param name="contentHeader">Content headers</param>
+        /// <param name="bodies">Message bodies</param>
+        /// <returns>The new message</returns>
+        /// <exception cref="QpidMessagingException">if the message cannot be created</exception>
+        AbstractQmsMessage CreateMessage(long deliverTag, bool redelivered,
+                                         ContentHeaderBody contentHeader,
+                                         IList bodies);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Creates the message.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="mimeType">Mime type to associate the new message with</param>
+        /// <returns>The new message</returns>
+        /// <exception cref="QpidMessagingException">if the message cannot be created</exception>
+        AbstractQmsMessage CreateMessage(string mimeType);
+    }
+}
+
+