// $Id: IntOutput.nc,v 1.2 2003/10/07 21:46:14 idgay Exp $

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/*
 * Authors:		Jason Hill, David Gay, Philip Levis, Nelson Lee
 * Date last modified:  6/25/02
 *
 *
 */

/**
 * Interface to an abstract ouput mechanism for integers. Two examples
 * of providers of this interface are IntToRfm and IntToLeds.
 *
 * @author Jason Hill
 * @author David Gay
 * @author Philip Levis
 * @author Nelson Lee
 */

interface StrOutput {

  /**
   * Output the given integer.
   *
   * @return SUCCESS if the value will be output, FAIL otherwise.
   */
  
  command result_t output(char* value);

  /**
   * Signal that the ouput operation has completed; success states
   * whether the operation was successful or not.
   *
   * @return SUCCESS always.
   *
   */
  event result_t outputComplete(result_t success);
}