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+/***************************************************************************
+ *   Copyright (C) 2005-2008 by the FIFE team                              *
+ *   http://www.fifengine.de                                               *
+ *   This file is part of FIFE.                                            *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   FIFE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify          *
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
+ *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
+ *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       *
+ *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
+ *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         *
+ *   GNU General Public License for more details.                          *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License     *
+ *   along with this program; if not, write to the                         *
+ *   Free Software Foundation, Inc.,                                       *
+ *   51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA              *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef FIFE_VFS_RAW_RAWDATASOURCE_H
+#define FIFE_VFS_RAW_RAWDATASOURCE_H
+
+// Standard C++ library includes
+
+// Platform specific includes
+#include "util/base/fife_stdint.h"
+
+// 3rd party library includes
+
+// FIFE includes
+// These includes are split up in two parts, separated by one empty line
+// First block: files included from the FIFE root src directory
+// Second block: files included from the same folder
+
+namespace FIFE {
+
+	/** Abstract baseclass - provides data for RawData
+	 *
+	 * RawData uses RawDataSources to access the data - if you want to add support for a new archivetype this is one of
+	 * the classes you need.
+	 */
+	class RawDataSource {
+
+		public:
+			RawDataSource();
+			virtual ~RawDataSource();
+
+			/** get the complete datasize */
+			virtual unsigned int getSize() const = 0;
+
+			/** read data from the source
+			 *
+			 * @param buffer the data will be written into buffer
+			 * @param start the startindex inside the source
+			 * @param length length bytes will be written into buffer
+			 */
+			virtual void readInto(uint8_t* buffer, unsigned int start, unsigned int length) = 0;
+
+	};
+
+}
+
+#endif