src/main/java/org/apache/xml/security/stax/ext/ProcessorChain.java

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package org.apache.xml.security.stax.ext;

import org.apache.xml.security.exceptions.XMLSecurityException;

import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;

/**
 * Basic interface for Output- and Input-Processor chains
 *
 */
public interface ProcessorChain {

    /**
     * resets the chain so that the next event will go again to the first processor in the chain.
     */
    void reset();

    /**
     * Will finally be called when the whole document is processed
     * Important note: Every processor in the chain has to call doFinal() in its own doFinal() method.
     * InputProcessors should call it before doing other stuff to keep the processing order. Remember the
     * input-chain is in principle processed in the reverse order since we "leech" the events through the chain.
     * So that means that we should do the same for the doFinal method, otherwise we may run into troubles.
     *
     * @throws XMLStreamException   thrown when a streaming error occurs
     * @throws XMLSecurityException thrown when a Security failure occurs
     */
    void doFinal() throws XMLStreamException, XMLSecurityException;
}