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 * created at Mar 4, 2008
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package org.biojava.bio.structure.io.mmcif;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/** Interface that needs to be implemented by an MMcifParser
 *
 * @author Andreas Prlic
 * @since 1.7
 */
public interface MMcifParser {

	/** Add a MMcifConsumer that listens to even being triggered by the parser and processes the data into a backend provided by the Consumer.
	 *
	 * @param consumer a consumer object.
	 */
	public void addMMcifConsumer(MMcifConsumer consumer);

	/** Remove all consumers from the parser.
	 *
	 */
	public void clearConsumers();

	/** remove a single consumer from the parser
	 *
	 * @param consumer
	 */
	public void removeMMcifConsumer(MMcifConsumer consumer);


	/** Start the actual parsing. The parser will trigger events that are defined by the MMcifConsumer class.
	 *
	 * @param buf a BufferedReader.
	 */
	public void parse(BufferedReader buf) throws IOException;

	/** Start the actual parsing. The parser will trigger events that are defined by the MMcifConsumer class.
	 *
	 * @param inStream InputStream to parse from.
	 */
	public void parse(InputStream inStream) throws IOException;


}