1/** 2 * $Revision: 2408 $ 3 * $Date: 2004-11-02 20:53:30 -0300 (Tue, 02 Nov 2004) $ 4 * 5 * Copyright 2003-2005 Jive Software. 6 * 7 * All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 8 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 9 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 10 * 11 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 12 * 13 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 14 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 15 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 16 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 17 * limitations under the License. 18 */ 19 20package org.jivesoftware.smack; 21 22import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Packet; 23 24/** 25 * Provides a mechanism to intercept and modify packets that are going to be 26 * sent to the server. PacketInterceptors are added to the {@link Connection} 27 * together with a {@link org.jivesoftware.smack.filter.PacketFilter} so that only 28 * certain packets are intercepted and processed by the interceptor.<p> 29 * 30 * This allows event-style programming -- every time a new packet is found, 31 * the {@link #interceptPacket(Packet)} method will be called. 32 * 33 * @see Connection#addPacketInterceptor(PacketInterceptor, org.jivesoftware.smack.filter.PacketFilter) 34 * @author Gaston Dombiak 35 */ 36public interface PacketInterceptor { 37 38 /** 39 * Process the packet that is about to be sent to the server. The intercepted 40 * packet can be modified by the interceptor.<p> 41 * 42 * Interceptors are invoked using the same thread that requested the packet 43 * to be sent, so it's very important that implementations of this method 44 * not block for any extended period of time. 45 * 46 * @param packet the packet to is going to be sent to the server. 47 */ 48 public void interceptPacket(Packet packet); 49} 50