StorageProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractStorageProvider, CipherStorageProvider, MemoryStorageProvider, TempFileStorageProvider, ThresholdStorageProvider
```
public interface StorageProvider
```
Provides a strategy for storing the contents of an InputStream or retrieving the content written to an OutputStream.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`StorageOutputStream`	`createStorageOutputStream()`	Creates a `StorageOutputStream` where data to be stored can be written to.
`Storage`	`store(java.io.InputStream in)`	Stores the contents of the given `InputStream`.

- Method Detail
  - store
```
Storage store(java.io.InputStream in)
       throws java.io.IOException
```
    Stores the contents of the given InputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - stream containing the data to store.
    
    Returns:
    
    a Storage instance that can be used to retrieve the stored content.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs.
  - createStorageOutputStream
```
StorageOutputStream createStorageOutputStream()
                                       throws java.io.IOException
```
    Creates a StorageOutputStream where data to be stored can be written to. Subsequently the user can call toStorage() on that object to get a Storage instance that holds the data that has been written.
    
    Returns:
    
    a StorageOutputStream where data can be written to.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs.