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//  IHeaderFrame.cs - Gbtc
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//  Code Modification History:
//  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  01/14/2005 - J. Ritchie Carroll
//       Generated original version of source code.
//  09/15/2009 - Stephen C. Wills
//       Added new header and license agreement.
//  12/17/2012 - Starlynn Danyelle Gilliam
//       Modified Header.
//
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namespace GSF.PhasorProtocols
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents a protocol independent interface representation of any kind of header frame that contains
    /// a collection of <see cref="IHeaderCell"/> objects.
    /// </summary>
    public interface IHeaderFrame : IChannelFrame
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets reference to the <see cref="HeaderCellCollection"/> for this <see cref="IHeaderFrame"/>.
        /// </summary>
        new HeaderCellCollection Cells { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the parsing state for the this <see cref="IHeaderFrame"/>.
        /// </summary>
        new IHeaderFrameParsingState State { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets header data for this <see cref="IHeaderFrame"/>.
        /// </summary>
        string HeaderData { get; set; }
    }
}