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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.
+ */
+/**
+ * @author Rustem V. Rafikov
+ * @version $Revision: 1.3 $
+ */
+package javax.imageio;
+
+import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
+import javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier;
+
+/**
+ * The ImageTranscoder interface is to be implemented by classes that
+ * perform image transcoding operations, that is, take images written
+ * in one format and write them in another format using
+ * read/write operations. Some image data can be lost in such processes.
+ * The ImageTranscoder interface converts metadata objects (IIOMetadata)
+ * of ImageReader to apropriate metadata object for ImageWriter.
+ */
+public interface ImageTranscoder {
+    
+    /**
+     * Converts the specified IIOMetadata object using the specified
+     * ImageWriteParam for obtaining writer's metadata structure.
+     * 
+     * @param inData the IIOMetadata.
+     * @param param the ImageWriteParam.
+     * 
+     * @return the IIOMetadata, or null.
+     */
+    IIOMetadata convertStreamMetadata(IIOMetadata inData, ImageWriteParam param);
+
+    /**
+     * Converts the specified IIOMetadata object using the specified
+     * ImageWriteParam for obtaining writer's metadata structure 
+     * and ImageTypeSpecifier object for obtaining the layout and 
+     * color information of the image for this metadata.
+     * 
+     * @param inData the IIOMetadata.
+     * @param imageType the ImageTypeSpecifier.
+     * @param param the ImageWriteParam.
+     * 
+     * @return the IIOMetadata, or null.
+     */
+    IIOMetadata convertImageMetadata(IIOMetadata inData, ImageTypeSpecifier imageType, ImageWriteParam param);
+}