tapestry/tapestry-framework/src/java/org/apache/tapestry/services/RequestCycleFactory.java

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package org.apache.tapestry.services;

import org.apache.tapestry.IEngine;
import org.apache.tapestry.IRequestCycle;

/**
 * A factory for creating instances of {@link org.apache.tapestry.IRequestCycle}for
 * the current request.
 * 
 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface RequestCycleFactory
{

    /**
     * Constructs the new instance using the request context. This includes
     * accessing {@link org.apache.tapestry.engine.ServiceEncoder}s to restore
     * any missing query parameters (that were encoding into the URL).
     */

    IRequestCycle newRequestCycle(IEngine engine);
}