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package org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mime;

/**
 * <p>Defines an interface for classes that parse the HTTP Accept header into a set or MimeType definitions ordered by
 * priority.
 *
 * <p>The ordering is based on the order they appear in the Accept header as well as the 'q' (for quality) parameter. A mime type definition of 'text/xml;q=0.6' will
 *  have a higher priorty than 'text/html' due to the q parameter
 *
 * @author Graeme Rocher
 * @since 1.0
 *        <p/>
 *        Created: Nov 26, 2007
 */
public interface AcceptHeaderParser {

    /**
     * Parses an Accept header into an ordered array of MimeType definitions
     *
     */
    public MimeType[] parse(String header);
}
