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#ifndef _COM_SUN_STAR_CONNECTION_XCONNECTION_IDL_ 
#define _COM_SUN_STAR_CONNECTION_XCONNECTION_IDL_ 
 
#include <com/sun/star/io/IOException.idl> 
 
 
module com {  module sun {  module star {  module connection { 
 
/** A bidirectional bytestream.
	
	<p> You should additionally implement XConnection2.

	@see XConnection2
 */
published interface XConnection: com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
{ 
	 
	/** reads a requested number of bytes from the connection.
		<p> This method is blocking, meaning that it always returns a bytesequence
		with the requested number of bytes, unless it has reached end of file (which
		often means, that close() has been called).
		
		<p> please see also the readSomeBytes() method of XConnection2.
		
		@return The read number of bytes. 
				The return value and the length of the
				returned sequence must be identical.
		@param nBytesToRead
		        The number of bytes to be read from the stream.

		@throws com::sun::star::io::IOException
		       in case an error occurred during reading from the stream.
	 */
	long read( [out] sequence < byte > aReadBytes , [in] long nBytesToRead ) 
			raises( com::sun::star::io::IOException ); 
 
	 
	// DocMerge from xml: method com::sun::star::connection::XConnection::write
	/** writes the given bytesequence to the stream.
		<p>The method blocks until the whole sequence is written.

		@throws com::sun::star::io::IOException
		       in case an error occurred during writing to the stream.
	 */
	void write( [in] sequence < byte > aData ) 
		raises( com::sun::star::io::IOException ); 
 
 
	/** Empties all internal buffers.
	 */
	void flush( ) 
			raises( com::sun::star::io::IOException ); 
 
	/** Immediately terminates any ongoing read or write calls.
		All subsequent read or write calls()
	 */
	void close( ) 
			raises( com::sun::star::io::IOException ); 
	 
     
	/** A unique string describing the connection. 

		<p>This string is different from the arguments to <member>XConnection::accept</member>
		and <member>XConnector::connect</member>. In general, the string contains an additional 
		handle value.  For example, "socket,host=localhost,port=2002,uniqueValue=2324". </p>
	 */
	string getDescription(); 
}; 
 
};};};};  
 
#endif