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package org.jclouds.io;
import org.jclouds.io.internal.BasePayloadSlicer;
import com.google.inject.ImplementedBy;
/**
*
* @author Adrian Cole
*/
@ImplementedBy(BasePayloadSlicer.class)
public interface PayloadSlicer {
/**
* Returns a {@link Payload} that returns input streams from the an underlying payload, where
* each stream starts at the given offset and is limited to the specified number of bytes.
*
* @param input
* the payload from which to get the raw streams
* @param offset
* the offset in bytes into the underlying stream where the returned streams will start
* @param length
* the maximum length of the returned streams
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
* if offset or length are negative
*/
Payload slice(Payload input, long offset, long length);
}