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package org.apache.james.mime4j.dom.field;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Abstract MIME field.
 */
public interface Field {
    
    /**
     * Gets the name of the field (<code>Subject</code>, <code>From</code>, etc).
     * 
     * @return the field name.
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * Gets the unparsed and possibly encoded (see RFC 2047) field body string.
     * 
     * @return the unparsed field body string.
     */
    String getBody();

    /**
     * Writes the original raw field bytes to an output stream.
     * The output is folded, the last CRLF is not included.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    void writeTo(OutputStream out) throws IOException;
    
}