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package com.rabbitmq.client;
/**
* Public API for abstract AMQP content header objects.
*/
public interface ContentHeader extends Cloneable {
/**
* Retrieve the class ID (see the spec for a list of allowable IDs).
* @return class ID of this ContentHeader. Properly an unsigned short, i.e. only the lowest 16 bits are significant
*/
public abstract int getClassId();
/**
* Retrieve the class name, eg "basic" (see the spec for a list of these).
* @return class name of this ContentHeader
*/
public abstract String getClassName();
/**
* A debugging utility - enable properties to be appended to a string buffer for use as trace messages.
* @param buffer a place to append the properties as a string
*/
public void appendPropertyDebugStringTo(StringBuilder buffer);
}