package org.apache.commons.digester3.plugins;

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/**
 * Defines an interface that a Rule class can implement if it wishes to get an initialisation callback after the rule
 * has been added to the set of Rules within a PluginRules instance.
 * 
 * @since 1.6
 */
public interface InitializableRule
{

    /**
     * Called after this Rule object has been added to the list of all Rules. Note that if a single InitializableRule
     * instance is associated with more than one pattern, then this method will be called more than once.
     * 
     * @param pattern is the digester match pattern that will trigger this rule.
     */
    void postRegisterInit( String pattern );

}