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package de.ilias.services.lucene.index.file;

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

/**
 * 
 *
 * @author Stefan Meyer <smeyer.ilias@gmx.de>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface FileHandler {

	/**
	 * get file content
	 * @param is
	 * @return
	 * @throws FileHandlerException
	 * @throws IOException 
	 */
	public String getContent(InputStream is) throws FileHandlerException, IOException;
	
	/**
	 * 
	 * @param is
	 * @return
	 */
	public InputStream transformStream(InputStream is);
}