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using System;

namespace Apache.NMS
{
	/// <summary>
	/// A Factory of IConnection objects
	/// </summary>
	public interface IConnectionFactory
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a new connection
		/// </summary>
		IConnection CreateConnection();

		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a new connection with the given user name and password
		/// </summary>
		IConnection CreateConnection(string userName, string password);

		/// <summary>
		/// Get/or set the broker Uri.
		/// </summary>
		Uri BrokerUri { get; set; }

		/// <summary>
		/// Get/or set the redelivery policy that new IConnection objects are
		/// assigned upon creation.
		/// </summary>
		IRedeliveryPolicy RedeliveryPolicy { get; set; }

		/// <summary>
		/// A Delegate that is called each time a Message is dispatched to allow the client to do
		/// any necessary transformations on the received message before it is delivered.  The
		/// ConnectionFactory sets the provided delegate instance on each Connection instance that
		/// is created from this factory, each connection in turn passes the delegate along to each
		/// Session it creates which then passes that along to the Consumers it creates.
		/// </summary>
		ConsumerTransformerDelegate ConsumerTransformer { get; set; }

		/// <summary>
		/// A delegate that is called each time a Message is sent from this Producer which allows
		/// the application to perform any needed transformations on the Message before it is sent.
		/// The ConnectionFactory sets the provided delegate instance on each Connection instance that
		/// is created from this factory, each connection in turn passes the delegate along to each
		/// Session it creates which then passes that along to the Producers it creates.
		/// </summary>
		ProducerTransformerDelegate ProducerTransformer { get; set; }
	}
}