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lrn@google.com ee569ce10a Reapply conversion of most core interfaces to abstract classes.
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// Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
/**
* The StringBuffer class is useful for concatenating strings
* efficiently. Only on a call to [toString] are the strings
* concatenated to a single String.
*/
abstract class StringBuffer {
/**
* Creates the string buffer with an initial content.
*/
factory StringBuffer([Object content = ""]) => new StringBufferImpl(content);
/**
* Returns the length of the buffer.
*/
int get length;
/**
* Returns whether the buffer is empty.
*/
bool isEmpty();
/**
* Converts [obj] to a string and adds it to the buffer. Returns [:this:].
*/
StringBuffer add(Object obj);
/**
* Adds the string representation of [charCode] to the buffer.
* Returns [this].
*/
StringBuffer addCharCode(int charCode);
/**
* Adds all items in [objects] to the buffer. Returns [:this:].
*/
StringBuffer addAll(Collection objects);
/**
* Clears the string buffer. Returns [:this:].
*/
StringBuffer clear();
/**
* Returns the contents of buffer as a concatenated string.
*/
String toString();
}