// loaderProcess.java 
// ---------------------------
// (C) by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net
// first published on http://www.anomic.de
// Frankfurt, Germany, 2004
// last major change: 28.09.2004
//
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package de.anomic.tools;

import java.util.Properties;

public interface loaderProcess {
    
    // steering methods
    public void feed(byte[] v); // returns true if process was successful; should be always synchronized
    public void terminate(); // if terminated before completion, completed() shows x < 100
    
    // feed-back methods
    public Properties result();
    public int completed(); // guess of completion status. shall be 100 if totally completed.

    // error control
    public int status(); // see loaderCore status constants
    public boolean available(); // true if it is ok to feed with feed()
    public Exception error(); // if in error status: this returnes exception
    
}