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package org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent;

import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 *
 */
public interface XContentParser extends Closeable {

    enum Token {
        START_OBJECT {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return false;
            }
        },

        END_OBJECT {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return false;
            }
        },

        START_ARRAY {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return false;
            }
        },

        END_ARRAY {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return false;
            }
        },

        FIELD_NAME {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return false;
            }
        },

        VALUE_STRING {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return true;
            }
        },

        VALUE_NUMBER {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return true;
            }
        },

        VALUE_BOOLEAN {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return true;
            }
        },

        // usually a binary value
        VALUE_EMBEDDED_OBJECT {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return true;
            }
        },

        VALUE_NULL {
            @Override
            public boolean isValue() {
                return false;
            }
        };

        public abstract boolean isValue();
    }

    enum NumberType {
        INT, LONG, FLOAT, DOUBLE
    }

    XContentType contentType();

    Token nextToken() throws IOException;

    void skipChildren() throws IOException;

    Token currentToken();

    String currentName() throws IOException;

    Map<String, Object> map() throws IOException;

    Map<String, Object> mapOrdered() throws IOException;

    Map<String, Object> mapAndClose() throws IOException;

    Map<String, Object> mapOrderedAndClose() throws IOException;

    String text() throws IOException;

    String textOrNull() throws IOException;

    BytesRef bytesOrNull() throws IOException;

    BytesRef bytes() throws IOException;

    Object objectText() throws IOException;

    Object objectBytes() throws IOException;

    boolean hasTextCharacters();

    char[] textCharacters() throws IOException;

    int textLength() throws IOException;

    int textOffset() throws IOException;

    Number numberValue() throws IOException;

    NumberType numberType() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Is the number type estimated or not (i.e. an int might actually be a long, its just low enough
     * to be an int).
     */
    boolean estimatedNumberType();

    short shortValue(boolean coerce) throws IOException;

    int intValue(boolean coerce) throws IOException;

    long longValue(boolean coerce) throws IOException;

    float floatValue(boolean coerce) throws IOException;

    double doubleValue(boolean coerce) throws IOException;
    
    short shortValue() throws IOException;

    int intValue() throws IOException;

    long longValue() throws IOException;

    float floatValue() throws IOException;

    double doubleValue() throws IOException;

    /**
     * returns true if the current value is boolean in nature.
     * values that are considered booleans:
     * - boolean value (true/false)
     * - numeric integers (=0 is considered as false, !=0 is true)
     * - one of the following strings: "true","false","on","off","yes","no","1","0"
     */
    boolean isBooleanValue() throws IOException;

    boolean booleanValue() throws IOException;

    byte[] binaryValue() throws IOException;

    void close();
}

@@ -951,16 +951,347 @@
 %0A%0A/**%0A *
+ Interface for pull - parsing %7B@link XContent%7D see %7B@link XContentType%7D for supported types.%0A *%0A * To obtain an instance of this class use the following pattern:%0A *%0A * %3Cpre%3E%0A *     XContentType xContentType = XContentType.JSON;%0A *     XContentParser parser = xContentType.xContent().createParser(%22%7B%5C%22key%5C%22 : %5C%22value%5C%22%7D%22);%0A * %3C/pre%3E
 %0A */%0Apub

Add simple example to XContentParser how to obtain an instance of it