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 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
 *
 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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package io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart;

import io.netty.util.ReferenceCounted;

/**
 * Interface for all Objects that could be encoded/decoded using HttpPostRequestEncoder/Decoder
 */
public interface InterfaceHttpData extends Comparable<InterfaceHttpData>, ReferenceCounted {
    enum HttpDataType {
        Attribute, FileUpload, InternalAttribute
    }

    /**
     * Returns the name of this InterfaceHttpData.
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     *
     * @return The HttpDataType
     */
    HttpDataType getHttpDataType();

    @Override
    InterfaceHttpData retain();

    @Override
    InterfaceHttpData retain(int increment);

    @Override
    InterfaceHttpData touch();

    @Override
    InterfaceHttpData touch(Object hint);
}
