/*
 * JasperReports - Free Java Reporting Library.
 * Copyright (C) 2001 - 2009 Jaspersoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 * http://www.jaspersoft.com
 *
 * Unless you have purchased a commercial license agreement from Jaspersoft,
 * the following license terms apply:
 *
 * This program is part of JasperReports.
 *
 * JasperReports 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 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * JasperReports 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 JasperReports. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

/*
 * Contributors:
 * Adrian Jackson - iapetus@users.sourceforge.net
 * David Taylor - exodussystems@users.sourceforge.net
 * Lars Kristensen - llk@users.sourceforge.net
 */
package net.sf.jasperreports.engine;

import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.Dimension2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.io.Serializable;


/**
 * @author Teodor Danciu (teodord@users.sourceforge.net)
 * @version $Id: JRRenderable.java 3033 2009-08-27 11:46:22Z teodord $
 */
public interface JRRenderable extends Serializable
{


	/**
	 *
	 */
	public static final byte TYPE_IMAGE = 0;
	public static final byte TYPE_SVG = 1;

	/**
	 * A constant used for specifying that the image is of unknown type 
	 */
	public static final byte IMAGE_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0;
	
	/**
	 * A constant used for specifying that the image is of GIF type
	 */
	public static final byte IMAGE_TYPE_GIF = 1;
	
	/**
	 * A constant used for specifying that the image is of the JPEG type
	 */
	public static final byte IMAGE_TYPE_JPEG = 2;
	
	/**
	 * A constant used for specifying that the image is of the PNG type
	 */
	public static final byte IMAGE_TYPE_PNG = 3;
	
	/**
	 * A constant used for specifying that the image is of the TIFF type
	 */
	public static final byte IMAGE_TYPE_TIFF = 4; 

	/**
	 * image mime type constants
	 */
	public static final String MIME_TYPE_GIF  = "image/gif";
	public static final String MIME_TYPE_JPEG = "image/jpeg";
	public static final String MIME_TYPE_PNG  = "image/png";
	public static final String MIME_TYPE_TIFF = "image/tiff";
	

	/**
	 *
	 */
	public String getId();

	/**
	 *
	 */
	public byte getType();

	/**
	 *
	 */
	public byte getImageType();

	/**
	 *
	 */
	public Dimension2D getDimension() throws JRException;


	/**
	 *
	 */
	public byte[] getImageData() throws JRException;


	/**
	 *
	 */
	public void render(Graphics2D grx, Rectangle2D rectangle) throws JRException;


}
