--- a/flys-artifacts/ChangeLog	Wed Mar 30 16:00:51 2011 +0000
+++ b/flys-artifacts/ChangeLog	Thu Mar 31 10:54:07 2011 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-03-31  Ingo Weinzierl <ingo@intevation.de>
+
+	* src/main/java/de/intevation/flys/exports/OutGenerator.java:
+	  New. This interface is used to generator different types of output.
+	  ArtifactCollections will make use of this interface to create a
+	  collected output of all its artifacts.
+
 2011-03-30  Ingo Weinzierl <ingo@intevation.de>
 
 	* src/main/java/de/intevation/flys/collections/FLYSArtifactCollection.java:

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/flys-artifacts/src/main/java/de/intevation/flys/exports/OutGenerator.java	Thu Mar 31 10:54:07 2011 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package de.intevation.flys.exports;
+
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+
+import de.intevation.artifacts.Artifact;
+import de.intevation.artifacts.CallContext;
+
+
+/**
+ * An OutGenerator is used to create a collected outputs of a list of Artifacts.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:ingo.weinzierl@intevation.de">Ingo Weinzierl</a>
+ */
+public interface OutGenerator {
+
+    /**
+     * Initializes the OutGenerator with meta information which are necessary
+     * for the output generation.
+     *
+     * @param request The incomding request document.
+     * @param out     The output stream.
+     * @param context The CallContext that provides further information and
+     * objects used for the output generation.
+     */
+    void init(Document request, OutputStream out, CallContext context);
+
+    /**
+     * Creates the output of an Artifact and appends that single output to the
+     * total output.
+     *
+     * @param artifact The artifact that provides information and data for the
+     * single output.
+     * @param attr A document that might contain some attributes used while
+     * producing the output.
+     */
+    void doOut(Artifact artifact, Document attr);
+
+    /**
+     * Writes the collected output of all artifacts specified in the
+     * <i>request</i> (see init()) document to the OutputStream <i>out</i> (see
+     * init()).
+     */
+    void generate();
+}
+// vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :