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package org.apache.olingo.server.api.processor;

import org.apache.olingo.commons.api.format.ContentType;
import org.apache.olingo.server.api.ODataApplicationException;
import org.apache.olingo.server.api.ODataLibraryException;
import org.apache.olingo.server.api.ODataRequest;
import org.apache.olingo.server.api.ODataResponse;
import org.apache.olingo.server.api.uri.UriInfo;

/**
 * Processor interface for handling a collection an Entity References.
 */
public interface ReferenceCollectionProcessor extends Processor {

  /**
   * Reads entity references from persistence and put them as serialized content and with
   * according status into the response.
   * @param request OData request object containing raw HTTP information
   * @param response OData response object for collecting response data
   * @param uriInfo information of a parsed OData URI
   * @param responseFormat requested content type after content negotiation
   * @throws ODataApplicationException if the service implementation encounters a failure
   * @throws ODataLibraryException
   */
  void readReferenceCollection(ODataRequest request, ODataResponse response, UriInfo uriInfo,
      ContentType responseFormat) throws ODataApplicationException, ODataLibraryException;
}
