/*

  * Entagged Audio Tag library

  * Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Rapha�l Slinckx <raphael@slinckx.net>

  * 

  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public

  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either

  * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  *  

  * This library 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

  * Lesser General Public License for more details.

  * 

  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public

  * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software

  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

  */

 package org.jaudiotagger.audio.generic;

 import org.jaudiotagger.tag.Tag;

 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

 /**

  * Abstract class for creating the raw content that represents the tag so it can be written

  * to file.

  */

 public abstract class AbstractTagCreator

 {

     /**

      * Convert tagdata to rawdata ready for writing to file with no additional padding

      *

      * @param tag

      * @return

      * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException

      */

     public ByteBuffer convert(Tag tag) throws UnsupportedEncodingException

     {

         return convert(tag, 0);

     }

     /**

      * Convert tagdata to rawdata ready for writing to file

      *

      * @param tag

      * @param padding TODO is this padding or additional padding

      * @return

      * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException

      */

     public abstract ByteBuffer convert(Tag tag, int padding) throws UnsupportedEncodingException;

 }