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| |
| package javax.print; |
| |
| import java.io.IOException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Interface MultiDoc specifies the interface for an object that supplies more |
| * than one piece of print data for a Print Job. "Doc" is a short, |
| * easy-to-pronounce term that means "a piece of print data," and a "multidoc" |
| * is a group of several docs. The client passes to the Print Job an object |
| * that implements interface MultiDoc, and the Print Job calls methods on |
| * that object to obtain the print data. |
| * <P> |
| * Interface MultiDoc provides an abstraction similar to a "linked list" of |
| * docs. A multidoc object is like a node in the linked list, containing the |
| * current doc in the list and a pointer to the next node (multidoc) in the |
| * list. The Print Job can call the multidoc's {@link #getDoc() |
| * <CODE>getDoc()</CODE>} method to get the current doc. When it's ready to go |
| * on to the next doc, the Print Job can call the multidoc's {@link #next() |
| * <CODE>next()</CODE>} method to get the next multidoc, which contains the |
| * next doc. So Print Job code for accessing a multidoc might look like this: |
| * <PRE> |
| * void processMultiDoc(MultiDoc theMultiDoc) { |
| * |
| * MultiDoc current = theMultiDoc; |
| |
| * while (current != null) { |
| * processDoc (current.getDoc()); |
| * current = current.next(); |
| * } |
| * } |
| * </PRE> |
| * <P> |
| * Of course, interface MultiDoc can be implemented in any way that fulfills |
| * the contract; it doesn't have to use a linked list in the implementation. |
| * <P> |
| * To get all the print data for a multidoc print job, a Print Service |
| * proxy could use either of two patterns: |
| * <OL TYPE=1> |
| * <LI> |
| * The <B>interleaved</B> pattern: Get the doc from the current multidoc. Get |
| * the print data representation object from the current doc. Get all the print |
| * data from the print data representation object. Get the next multidoc from |
| * the current multidoc, and repeat until there are no more. (The code example |
| * above uses the interleaved pattern.) |
| * <P> |
| * <LI> |
| * The <B>all-at-once</B> pattern: Get the doc from the current multidoc, and |
| * save the doc in a list. Get the next multidoc from the current multidoc, and |
| * repeat until there are no more. Then iterate over the list of saved docs. Get |
| * the print data representation object from the current doc. Get all the print |
| * data from the print data representation object. Go to the next doc in the |
| * list, and repeat until there are no more. |
| * </OL> |
| * Now, consider a printing client that is generating print data on the fly and |
| * does not have the resources to store more than one piece of print data at a |
| * time. If the print service proxy used the all-at-once pattern to get the |
| * print data, it would pose a problem for such a client; the client would have |
| * to keep all the docs' print data around until the print service proxy comes |
| * back and asks for them, which the client is not able to do. To work with such |
| * a client, the print service proxy must use the interleaved pattern. |
| * <P> |
| * To address this problem, and to simplify the design of clients providing |
| * multiple docs to a Print Job, every Print Service proxy that supports |
| * multidoc print jobs is required to access a MultiDoc object using the |
| * interleaved pattern. That is, given a MultiDoc object, the print service |
| * proxy will call {@link #getDoc() <CODE>getDoc()</CODE>} one or more times |
| * until it successfully obtains the current Doc object. The print service proxy |
| * will then obtain the current doc's print data, not proceeding until all the |
| * print data is obtained or an unrecoverable error occurs. If it is able to |
| * continue, the print service proxy will then call {@link #next() |
| * <CODE>next()</CODE>} one or more times until it successfully obtains either |
| * the next MultiDoc object or an indication that there are no more. An |
| * implementation of interface MultiDoc can assume the print service proxy will |
| * follow this interleaved pattern; for any other pattern of usage, the MultiDoc |
| * implementation's behavior is unspecified. |
| * <P> |
| * There is no restriction on the number of client threads that may be |
| * simultaneously accessing the same multidoc. Therefore, all implementations of |
| * interface MultiDoc must be designed to be multiple thread safe. In fact, a |
| * client thread could be adding docs to the end of the (conceptual) list while |
| * a Print Job thread is simultaneously obtaining docs from the beginning of the |
| * list; provided the multidoc object synchronizes the threads properly, the two |
| * threads will not interfere with each other |
| */ |
| |
| public interface MultiDoc { |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * Obtain the current doc object. |
| * |
| * @return Current doc object. |
| * |
| * @exception IOException |
| * Thrown if a error ocurred reading the document. |
| */ |
| public Doc getDoc() throws IOException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Go to the multidoc object that contains the next doc object in the |
| * sequence of doc objects. |
| * |
| * @return Multidoc object containing the next doc object, or null if |
| * there are no further doc objects. |
| * |
| * @exception IOException |
| * Thrown if an error occurred locating the next document |
| */ |
| public MultiDoc next() throws IOException; |
| |
| } |