*/
  public abstract OutputStream openStream() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Opens a new buffered {@link OutputStream} for writing to this sink. The returned stream is not
   * required to be a {@link BufferedOutputStream} in order to allow implementations to simply
   * delegate to {@link #openStream()} when the stream returned by that method does not benefit from

   */
  public abstract Writer openStream() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Opens a new buffered {@link Writer} for writing to this sink. The returned stream is not
   * required to be a {@link BufferedWriter} in order to allow implementations to simply delegate to
   * {@link #openStream()} when the stream returned by that method does not benefit from additional

  public long copyTo(CharSink sink) throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(sink);

    Closer closer = Closer.create();
    try {
      Reader reader = closer.register(openStream());
      Writer writer = closer.register(sink.openStream());
      return CharStreams.copy(reader, writer);
    } catch (Throwable e) {
      throw closer.rethrow(e);
    } finally {
      closer.close();
    }
  }

  /**

        try {
            Enumeration<URL> urls = loader.getResources(BUILDER.getExtensionDescriptorLocation());
            while (urls.hasMoreElements()) {

                try (InputStream is = urls.nextElement().openStream()) {
                    ExtensionDescriptor descriptor = BUILDER.build(is);
                    artifacts.addAll(descriptor.getExportedArtifacts());
                    packages.addAll(descriptor.getExportedPackages());

        this.url = Objects.requireNonNull(url, "url cannot be null");
        this.hashCode = Objects.hashCode(url);
    }

    @Override
    public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
        return url.openStream();
    }

    @Override
    public String getLocation() {
        return url.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Gets the URL of this source.
     *

            while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
                URL resource = resources.nextElement();
                try {
                    InputStream is = resource.openStream();
                    final Properties properties = new Properties();
                    if (is != null) {
                        try (InputStream in = is) {
                            properties.load(in);

    // read the first 8 chars manually, since there's no equivalent to ByteSource.slice
    // TODO(cgdecker): Add CharSource.slice?
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    Reader reader = concatenated.openStream(); // no need to worry about closing
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
      builder.append((char) reader.read());
    }
    assertEquals(expected, builder.toString());
  }

                @Override
                public Path getPath() {
                    return null;
                }

                @Override
                public InputStream openStream() throws IOException {
                    return source.getInputStream();
                }

                @Override
                public String getLocation() {

                try (InputStream is = Files.newInputStream(path)) {
                    return xml.read(is, request.isStrict());
                }
            } else {
                try (InputStream is = url.openStream()) {
                    return xml.read(is, request.isStrict());
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {

            this.src = src;
        }

        @Override
        public Path getPath() {
            return path;
        }

        @Override
        public InputStream openStream() throws IOException {
            return Files.newInputStream(src);
        }

        @Override
        public String getLocation() {
            return src.toString();
        }