Package com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes

Interface ByteBackedContentRevision

All Superinterfaces:

ContentRevision

All Known Subinterfaces:

BinaryContentRevision

All Known Implementing Classes:

CurrentBinaryContentRevision, CurrentContentRevision, CvsBinaryContentRevision, CvsContentRevision, GitBinaryContentRevision, GitContentRevision, HgBinaryContentRevision, HgContentRevision, HgCurrentBinaryContentRevision, ShelvedBinaryContentRevision, SimpleBinaryContentRevision, SvnContentRevision, SvnRepositoryBinaryContentRevision, SvnRepositoryContentRevision, VcsCurrentRevisionProxy

public interface ByteBackedContentRevision
extends ContentRevision

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
byte []	getContentAsBytes() Content of the revision.

Methods inherited from interface com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.ContentRevision

getContent, getFile, getRevisionNumber

Method Detail

getContentAsBytes

byte [] getContentAsBytes()
                   throws VcsException

Content of the revision. Implementers are encouraged to lazy implement this especially when it requires connection to the version control server or something. Might return null in case if file path denotes a directory or content is impossible to retreive.

Returns:

content of the revision

Throws:

VcsException - in case when content retrieval fails