/** | |
* $Revision: 2408 $ | |
* $Date: 2004-11-02 20:53:30 -0300 (Tue, 02 Nov 2004) $ | |
* | |
* Copyright 2003-2005 Jive Software. | |
* | |
* All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); | |
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. | |
* You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
* | |
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
* | |
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
* limitations under the License. | |
*/ | |
package org.jivesoftware.smack; | |
import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Packet; | |
/** | |
* Provides a mechanism to intercept and modify packets that are going to be | |
* sent to the server. PacketInterceptors are added to the {@link Connection} | |
* together with a {@link org.jivesoftware.smack.filter.PacketFilter} so that only | |
* certain packets are intercepted and processed by the interceptor.<p> | |
* | |
* This allows event-style programming -- every time a new packet is found, | |
* the {@link #interceptPacket(Packet)} method will be called. | |
* | |
* @see Connection#addPacketInterceptor(PacketInterceptor, org.jivesoftware.smack.filter.PacketFilter) | |
* @author Gaston Dombiak | |
*/ | |
public interface PacketInterceptor { | |
/** | |
* Process the packet that is about to be sent to the server. The intercepted | |
* packet can be modified by the interceptor.<p> | |
* | |
* Interceptors are invoked using the same thread that requested the packet | |
* to be sent, so it's very important that implementations of this method | |
* not block for any extended period of time. | |
* | |
* @param packet the packet to is going to be sent to the server. | |
*/ | |
public void interceptPacket(Packet packet); | |
} |