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package org.apache.http.conn.routing;

import java.net.InetAddress;

import org.apache.http.HttpHost;


/**
 * Read-only interface for route information.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:rolandw at apache.org">Roland Weber</a>
 *
 *
 * <!-- empty lines to avoid svn diff problems -->
 * @version $Revision: 652200 $
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface RouteInfo {

    /**
     * The tunnelling type of a route.
     * Plain routes are established by connecting to the target or
     * the first proxy.
     * Tunnelled routes are established by connecting to the first proxy
     * and tunnelling through all proxies to the target.
     * Routes without a proxy cannot be tunnelled.
     */
    public enum TunnelType { PLAIN, TUNNELLED }

    /**
     * The layering type of a route.
     * Plain routes are established by connecting or tunnelling.
     * Layered routes are established by layering a protocol such as TLS/SSL
     * over an existing connection.
     * Protocols can only be layered over a tunnel to the target, or
     * or over a direct connection without proxies.
     * <br/>
     * Layering a protocol
     * over a direct connection makes little sense, since the connection
     * could be established with the new protocol in the first place.
     * But we don't want to exclude that use case.
     */
    public enum LayerType  { PLAIN, LAYERED }



    /**
     * Obtains the target host.
     * 
     * @return the target host
     */
    HttpHost getTargetHost()
        ;


    /**
     * Obtains the local address to connect from.
     * 
     * @return  the local address,
     *          or <code>null</code>
     */
    InetAddress getLocalAddress()
        ;


    /**
     * Obtains the number of hops in this route.
     * A direct route has one hop. A route through a proxy has two hops.
     * A route through a chain of <i>n</i> proxies has <i>n+1</i> hops.
     *
     * @return  the number of hops in this route
     */
    int getHopCount()
        ;


    /**
     * Obtains the target of a hop in this route.
     * The target of the last hop is the {@link #getTargetHost target host},
     * the target of previous hops is the respective proxy in the chain.
     * For a route through exactly one proxy, target of hop 0 is the proxy
     * and target of hop 1 is the target host.
     *
     * @param hop       index of the hop for which to get the target,
     *                  0 for first
     *
     * @return  the target of the given hop
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *  if the argument is negative or not less than
     *  {@link #getHopCount getHopCount()}
     */
    HttpHost getHopTarget(int hop)
        ;


    /**
     * Obtains the first proxy host.
     * 
     * @return the first proxy in the proxy chain, or
     *         <code>null</code> if this route is direct
     */
    HttpHost getProxyHost()
        ;


    /**
     * Obtains the tunnel type of this route.
     * If there is a proxy chain, only end-to-end tunnels are considered.
     *
     * @return  the tunnelling type
     */
    TunnelType getTunnelType()
        ;


    /**
     * Checks whether this route is tunnelled through a proxy.
     * If there is a proxy chain, only end-to-end tunnels are considered.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if tunnelled end-to-end through at least
     *          one proxy,
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise
     */
    boolean isTunnelled()
        ;


    /**
     * Obtains the layering type of this route.
     * In the presence of proxies, only layering over an end-to-end tunnel
     * is considered.
     *
     * @return  the layering type
     */
    LayerType getLayerType()
        ;


    /**
     * Checks whether this route includes a layered protocol.
     * In the presence of proxies, only layering over an end-to-end tunnel
     * is considered.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if layered,
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise
     */
    boolean isLayered()
        ;


    /**
     * Checks whether this route is secure.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if secure,
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise
     */
    boolean isSecure()
        ;


} // interface RouteInfo