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 * Created on 26.04.2004
 * @author Andreas Prlic
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 */
package org.biojava.bio.structure.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.biojava.bio.structure.Structure;

/**
 * interface StructureIOFile extends the StructureIO interface
 * and adds a few File specific methods.
 * @author Andreas Prlic
 */
public interface StructureIOFile extends StructureIO {

    /** Set path to file / connection string to db.
     * This is for installations of PDB/mmCif where all files are located in one directory.
     *
     * @param path  a String specifying the path value
     */
    public void setPath(String path) ;

    /** get the directory path to the files
     *
     * @return path
     */
    public String getPath();

    /** add a known File extension.
     * @param ext  a String ...
     */
    public void addExtension(String ext);

    /** clear all file extensions
     *
     */
    public void clearExtensions();

    /** open filename and returns
     * a Structure object.
     * @param filename  a String
     * @return a Structure object
     * @throws IOException ...
     */
    public Structure getStructure(String filename) throws IOException ;

    /** read file from File and returns
     * a Structure object.
     * @param file file containing a PDB or mmcif file
     * @return a Structure object
     * @throws IOException ...
     */
    public Structure getStructure(File file) throws IOException ;

    /** Fetch files automatically from FTP server. Default: false
     *
     * @return flag is true or false.
     */
    public boolean isAutoFetch();

    /** Tell the parser to fetch missing PDB files from the FTP server automatically.
	 *
	 * default is false. If true, new PDB files will be automatically stored in the Path and gzip compressed.
	 *
	 * @param autoFetch flag.
	 */
	public void setAutoFetch(boolean autoFetch);

}