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/*
 * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
 *
 * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
 *
 * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
 *
 *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
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 *   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 .
 */

package org.openoffice.xmerge;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 *  <p>A <code>DocumentDeserializer</code> represents a converter that
 *  converts &quot;Device&quot; <code>Document</code> objects into the
 *  &quot;Office&quot; <code>Document</code> format.</p>
 *
 *  <p>The <code>PluginFactory</code> {@link
 *  org.openoffice.xmerge.DocumentDeserializerFactory#createDocumentDeserializer
 *  createDocumentDeserializer} method creates a <code>DocumentDeserializer</code>,
 *  which may or may not implement <code>DocumentDeserializer2</code>.
 *  When it is constructed, a
 *  <code>ConvertData</code> object is passed in to be used as input.</p>
 *
 *  @author  Henrik Just
 *  @see     org.openoffice.xmerge.PluginFactory
 *  @see     org.openoffice.xmerge.DocumentDeserializerFactory
 */
public interface DocumentDeserializer2 extends DocumentSerializer {

    /**
     *  <p>Convert the data passed into the <code>DocumentDeserializer2</code>
     *  constructor into the &quot;Office&quot; <code>Document</code>
     *  format. The URL's passed may be used to resolve links and to choose the
     *  name of the output office document.</p>
     *
     *  <p>This method may or may not be thread-safe.  It is expected
     *  that the user code does not call this method in more than one
     *  thread.  And for most cases, this method is only done once.</p>
     *
     *  @return  The resulting <code>Document</code> object from conversion.
     *
     *  @param   deviceURL         URL of the device document (may be null if unknown)
     *  @param   officeURL         URL of the office document (may be null if unknown)
     *
     *  @throws  ConvertException  If any Convert error occurs.
     *  @throws  IOException       If any I/O error occurs.
     */
    public Document deserialize(String deviceURL, String officeURL) throws
        ConvertException, IOException;
}