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package org.apache.fop.pdf;

/**
 * class representing an action object.
 */
public abstract class PDFAction extends PDFObject {

    
    /**
     * create an Action object.
     * this constructor is used for passing on the object number to the PDFObject
     *
     * @param number the object's number     
     */
    public PDFAction(int number) {

	/* generic creation of object */
	super(number);	    
    }

    /**
     * empty constructor for PDFAction.
     * this constructor is used when there is no additional object being created
     *     
     */
    public PDFAction()
    {
    }

    /**
     * represent the action to call
     * this method should be implemented to return the action which gets
     * called by the Link Object.  This could be a reference to another object
     * or the specific destination of the link
     *
     * @return the action to place next to /A within a Link
     */
    abstract public String getAction();
    

    /**
     * represent the object in PDF
     * this method should be implemented to return the PDF which is to be
     * generated by the Action object
     *
     * @return the PDF string
     */
    abstract public byte[] toPDF();

    }