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package org.apache.mina.core.filterchain;

import org.apache.mina.core.session.IoSession;

/**
 * An interface that builds {@link IoFilterChain} in predefined way
 * when {@link IoSession} is created.  You can extract common filter chain
 * modification logic to this interface.  For example, to add a filter
 * to the chain,
 * <pre>
 * public class MyFilterChainBuilder implements IoFilterChainBuilder {
 *     public void buildFilterChain( IoFilterChain chain ) throws Exception {
 *         chain.addLast( "myFilter", new MyFilter() );
 *     }
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * @author <a href="http://mina.apache.org">Apache MINA Project</a>
 */
public interface IoFilterChainBuilder {
    /**
     * An implementation which does nothing.
     */
    IoFilterChainBuilder NOOP = new IoFilterChainBuilder() {
        public void buildFilterChain(IoFilterChain chain) throws Exception {
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "NOOP";
        }
    };

    /**
     * Modifies the specified <tt>chain</tt>.
     * 
     * @param chain The chain to modify
     * @throws Exception If the chain modification failed
     */
    void buildFilterChain(IoFilterChain chain) throws Exception;
}
