/*
    * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: none
    * SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
    */
   
   package gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.databind.model.info;
   
   import java.io.IOException;
   import java.util.List;
  import java.util.Map;
  
  import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.NonNull;
  
  public interface IModelInstanceWriteHandler<ITEM> {
    default void writeSingleton(@NonNull ITEM item) throws IOException {
      writeItem(item);
    }
  
    void writeList(@NonNull List<ITEM> items) throws IOException;
  
    void writeMap(@NonNull Map<String, ITEM> items) throws IOException;
  
    /**
     * Write the next item in the collection of items represented by the instance.
     *
     * @param item
     *          the item Java object to write
     * @throws IOException
     *           if an error occurred while parsing the input
     */
    void writeItem(@NonNull ITEM item) throws IOException;
  }