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  package org.apache.solr.response;
  
  import java.io.Writer;
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;
  import org.apache.solr.request.SolrQueryRequest;
  import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.NamedListInitializedPlugin;
  
  /**
   * Implementations of <code>QueryResponseWriter</code> are used to format responses to query requests.
   *
   * Different <code>QueryResponseWriter</code>s are registered with the <code>SolrCore</code>.
   * One way to register a QueryResponseWriter with the core is through the <code>solrconfig.xml</code> file.
   * <p>
   * Example <code>solrconfig.xml</code> entry to register a <code>QueryResponseWriter</code> implementation to
   * handle all queries with a writer type of "simple":
   * <p>
   * <code>
   *    &lt;queryResponseWriter name="simple" class="foo.SimpleResponseWriter" /&gt;
   * </code>
   * <p>
   * A single instance of any registered QueryResponseWriter is created
   * via the default constructor and is reused for all relevant queries.
   *
   * @version $Id: QueryResponseWriter.java 1075192 2011-02-28 00:50:09Z uschindler $
   */
  public interface QueryResponseWriter extends NamedListInitializedPlugin {
    public static String CONTENT_TYPE_XML_UTF8="application/xml; charset=UTF-8";
    public static String CONTENT_TYPE_TEXT_UTF8="text/plain; charset=UTF-8";
    public static String CONTENT_TYPE_TEXT_ASCII="text/plain; charset=US-ASCII";
  
    /**
     * Write a SolrQueryResponse, this method must be thread save.
     *
     * <p>
     * Information about the request (in particular: formating options) may be 
     * obtained from <code>req</code> but the dominant source of information 
     * should be <code>rsp</code>.
     * <p>
     * There are no mandatory actions that write must perform.
     * An empty write implementation would fulfill
     * all interface obligations.
     * </p> 
     */
    public void write(Writer writer, SolrQueryRequest request, SolrQueryResponse response) throws IOException;
  
    /** 
     * Return the applicable Content Type for a request, this method 
     * must be thread safe.
     *
     * <p>
     * QueryResponseWriter's must implement this method to return a valid 
     * HTTP Content-Type header for the request, that will logically 
     * correspond with the output produced by the write method.
     * </p>
     * @return a Content-Type string, which may not be null.
     */
    public String getContentType(SolrQueryRequest request, SolrQueryResponse response);
    
    /** <code>init</code> will be called just once, immediately after creation.
     * <p>The args are user-level initialization parameters that
     * may be specified when declaring a response writer in
     * solrconfig.xml
     */
    public void init(NamedList args);
  }
  
  
  
  