/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */

package android.text;

import android.os.Parcel;
import android.os.Parcelable;

/**
 * A special kind of Parcelable for objects that will serve as text spans.
 * This can only be used by code in the framework; it is not intended for
 * applications to implement their own Parcelable spans.
 */
public interface ParcelableSpan extends Parcelable {
    /**
     * Return a special type identifier for this span class.
     */
    int getSpanTypeId();

    /**
     * Internal implementation of {@link #getSpanTypeId()} that is not meant to
     * be overridden outside of the framework.
     *
     * @hide
     */
    int getSpanTypeIdInternal();

    /**
     * Internal implementation of {@link Parcelable#writeToParcel(Parcel, int)}
     * that is not meant to be overridden outside of the framework.
     *
     * @hide
     */
    void writeToParcelInternal(Parcel dest, int flags);
}