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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright 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
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding;
+
+/**
+ * Data pipe allows a data source pushes data into its sink and pipe the data into its result
+ * 
+ * @param <S> The data binding type of the sink
+ * @param <R> The data binding type of the result
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface DataPipe<S, R> {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a sink (for example, java.io.OutputStream, java.io.Writer or org.xml.sax.ContentHandler) to receive data
+     * pushed by the source
+     * 
+     * @return The sink to consume data
+     */
+    S getSink();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the data populated by the sink
+     * 
+     * @return
+     */
+    R getResult();
+
+}