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package org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.attachment;

import javax.activation.DataHandler;

/**
 * <p><b>Purpose:</b> Provides an interface through which EclipseLink can allow a user to do
 * special handling for Binary Data. This is used for fields mapped using an XMLBinaryDataMapping
 * to retrieve the binary data during an unmarshal based on a swaRef or MTOM id. 
 * 
 * If isXOPPackage returns false, then no other methods on this interface will be called, and it
 * will be assumed that all binary mapped fields have been inlined as base64.
 *
 * @see XMLBinaryDataMapping
 * @see XMLAttachmentMarshaller
 */
public interface XMLAttachmentUnmarshaller {
    public DataHandler getAttachmentAsDataHandler(String id);

    public byte[] getAttachmentAsByteArray(String id);
    
    public boolean isXOPPackage();
}