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030package org.openimaj.tools.twitter.modes.output;
031
032import java.io.IOException;
033import java.io.PrintWriter;
034import org.openimaj.tools.twitter.options.AbstractTwitterPreprocessingToolOptions;
035import org.openimaj.twitter.GeneralJSON;
036
037/**
038 * how the processing should be outputed
039 * 
040 * @author Sina Samangooei (ss@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
041 *
042 */
043public abstract class TwitterOutputMode {
044        
045        /**
046         * Output a tweet to a printwriter
047         * @param twitterStatus
048         * @param outputWriter
049         * @throws IOException
050         */
051        public abstract void output(GeneralJSON twitterStatus, PrintWriter outputWriter) throws IOException;
052
053        /**
054         * how outputs should be seperated
055         * @param string
056         */
057        public abstract void delimit(String string);
058        
059        /**
060         * @param abstractTwitterPreprocessingToolOptions
061         */
062        public void validate(AbstractTwitterPreprocessingToolOptions abstractTwitterPreprocessingToolOptions){
063                
064        }
065
066}