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019
020package com.avpkit.core.io;
021
022import com.avpkit.core.io.URLProtocolManager;
023
024/**
025 * For Internal Use Only.
026 * 
027 * A signature interface for objects that want to register protocols for
028 * AVPKit to use.
029 * 
030 * @author aclarke
031 *
032 */
033public interface IURLProtocolRegistrar
034{
035  /**
036   * Tells AVPKit that any requests for a given protocol should be
037   * redirected to the given manager.
038   * <p>
039   * NOTE: Protocol can only be alpha-characters; no numbers or punctuation.
040   * </p>
041   * @param protocol The protocol (alpha-only) without ":" 
042   * @param manager The manager object you want to use.
043   */
044  void registerProtocol(String protocol, URLProtocolManager manager);
045}