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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2013 EclipseSource and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * EclipseSource - initial API and implementation
+ ******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.rap.fileupload;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+
+/**
+ * Instances of this interface are responsible for reading and processing the data from a file
+ * upload.
+ */
+public abstract class FileUploadReceiver {
+
+ /**
+ * Reads and processes all data from the provided input stream.
+ *
+ * @param stream the stream to read from
+ * @param details the details of the uploaded file like file name, content-type and size
+ * @throws IOException if an input / output error occurs
+ */
+ public abstract void receive( InputStream stream, FileDetails details ) throws IOException;
+
+}