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#ifndef _DeliveryAdapter_
#define _DeliveryAdapter_

#include "DeliveryId.h"
#include "DeliveryToken.h"
#include "Message.h"
#include "qpid/framing/amqp_types.h"

namespace qpid {
namespace broker {

    /**
     * The intention behind this interface is to separate the generic
     * handling of some form of message delivery to clients that is
     * contained in the version independent Channel class from the
     * details required for a particular situation or
     * version. i.e. where the existing adapters allow (through
     * supporting the generated interface for a version of the
     * protocol) inputs of a channel to be adapted to the version
     * independent part, this does the same for the outputs.
     */
    class DeliveryAdapter
    {
    public:
        virtual DeliveryId deliver(QueuedMessage& msg, DeliveryToken::shared_ptr token) = 0;
        virtual ~DeliveryAdapter(){}
    };

}}


#endif
