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package org.apache.sanselan.formats.tiff.fieldtypes;

import org.apache.sanselan.ImageWriteException;
import org.apache.sanselan.formats.tiff.TiffField;

public class FieldTypeASCII extends FieldType
{
	public FieldTypeASCII(int type, String name)
	{
		super(type, 1, name);
	}

	public Object getSimpleValue(TiffField entry) 
	{
		return new String(getRawBytes(entry));
	}

	public byte[] writeData(Object o, int byteOrder) throws ImageWriteException
	{
		if (o instanceof byte[])
			return (byte[]) o;
		else if (o instanceof String)
			return ((String) o).getBytes();
		else
			throw new ImageWriteException("Unknown data type: " + o);
	}

}