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20 package org.apache.mina.core.filterchain;
21
22 import org.apache.mina.core.session.IoSession;
23
24 /**
25 * An interface that builds {@link IoFilterChain} in predefined way
26 * when {@link IoSession} is created. You can extract common filter chain
27 * modification logic to this interface. For example, to add a filter
28 * to the chain,
29 * <pre>
30 * public class MyFilterChainBuilder implements IoFilterChainBuilder {
31 * public void buildFilterChain( IoFilterChain chain ) throws Exception {
32 * chain.addLast( "myFilter", new MyFilter() );
33 * }
34 * }
35 * </pre>
36 *
37 * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org)
38 * @version $Rev: 576217 $, $Date: 2007-09-17 01:55:27 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) $
39 */
40 public interface IoFilterChainBuilder {
41 /**
42 * An implementation which does nothing.
43 */
44 IoFilterChainBuilder NOOP = new IoFilterChainBuilder() {
45 public void buildFilterChain(IoFilterChain chain) throws Exception {
46 }
47
48 @Override
49 public String toString() {
50 return "NOOP";
51 }
52 };
53
54 /**
55 * Modifies the specified <tt>chain</tt>.
56 */
57 void buildFilterChain(IoFilterChain chain) throws Exception;
58 }