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* $Date: 2007-02-19 15:17:08 +0100 (Mon, 19 Feb 2007) $
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* Copyright (C) 1997-2007 The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) project
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* Contact: cdk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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package org.openscience.cdk.io.formats;
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* This class is the interface that all ChemFormat's should implement.
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* @author Egon Willighagen <egonw@sci.kun.nl>
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* @cdk.created 2004-10-25
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public interface IChemFormat extends IResourceFormat {
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* Returns the class name of the CDK Reader for this format.
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* @return null if no CDK Reader is available.
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public String getReaderClassName();
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* Returns the class name of the CDK Writer for this format.
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* @return null if no CDK Writer is available.
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public String getWriterClassName();
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* Returns an integer indicating the data features that this
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* format supports. The integer is composed as explained in
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* DataFeatures. May be set to DataFeatures.NONE as default.
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* @see org.openscience.cdk.tools.DataFeatures
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public int getSupportedDataFeatures();
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* Returns an integer indicating the data features that this
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* format requires. For example, the XYZ format requires 3D
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* @see org.openscience.cdk.tools.DataFeatures
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public int getRequiredDataFeatures();