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using ZXing.Common;

namespace ZXing
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interface for a smart class to encode some content into a barcode
    /// </summary>
    public interface IBarcodeWriterGeneric
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Get or sets the barcode format which should be generated
        /// (only suitable if MultiFormatWriter is used for property Encoder which is the default)
        /// </summary>
        BarcodeFormat Format { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the options container for the encoding and renderer process.
        /// </summary>
        EncodingOptions Options { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the writer which encodes the content to a BitMatrix.
        /// If no value is set the MultiFormatWriter is used.
        /// </summary>
        Writer Encoder { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Encodes the specified contents.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="contents">The contents.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        BitMatrix Encode(string contents);
    }
}