/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 The Libphonenumber Authors
 *
 * Licensed 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
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 */

package com.google.i18n.phonenumbers;

import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Interface for clients to specify a customized phone metadata loader, useful for Android apps to
 * load Android resources since the library loads Java resources by default, e.g. with
 * <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/AssetManager.html">
 * AssetManager</a>. Note that implementation owners have the responsibility to ensure this is
 * thread-safe.
 */
public interface MetadataLoader {
  /**
   * Returns an input stream corresponding to the metadata to load. This method may be called
   * concurrently so implementations must be thread-safe.
   *
   * @param metadataFileName  file name (including path) of metadata to load. File path is an
   *     absolute class path like /com/google/i18n/phonenumbers/data/PhoneNumberMetadataProto
   * @return  the input stream for the metadata file. The library will close this stream
   *     after it is done. Return null in case the metadata file could not be found
   */
  public InputStream loadMetadata(String metadataFileName);
}