RotationStrategy (onebusaway-container 2.5.13-otsf API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

TimeRotationStrategy
```
public interface RotationStrategy
```
Defines a Writer rotation strategy that can be used in cooperation with RotationWriter to have one virtual Writer that seamless rotates output to multiple output writers.

Author:

bdferris

See Also:

RotationWriter, TimeRotationStrategy

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Writer`	`getFirstWriter()`
`Writer`	`getNextWriter(Writer writer, int charactersWritten)`	Called to get the next output writer when a call is made to `RotationWriter.flush()`.

- Method Detail
  - getFirstWriter
```
Writer getFirstWriter()
               throws IOException
```
    Returns:
    
    the Writer that will be used for initial output
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException
  - getNextWriter
```
Writer getNextWriter(Writer writer,
                     int charactersWritten)
              throws IOException
```
    Called to get the next output writer when a call is made to RotationWriter.flush(). The current writer is provided as a parameter, so if no rotation should occur, just return the current writer.
    
    Parameters:
    
    writer - the current output writer
    
    charactersWritten - the number of characters written to the current writer
    
    Returns:
    
    the writer to output to in the future
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException