Smack/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/debugger/SmackDebugger.java

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package org.jivesoftware.smack.debugger;

import java.io.*;

import org.jivesoftware.smack.*;

/**
 * Interface that allows for implementing classes to debug XML traffic. That is a GUI window that 
 * displays XML traffic.<p>
 * 
 * Every implementation of this interface <b>must</b> have a public constructor with the following 
 * arguments: XMPPConnection, Writer, Reader.
 * 
 * @author Gaston Dombiak
 */
public interface SmackDebugger {

    /**
     * Called when a user has logged in to the server. The user could be an anonymous user, this 
     * means that the user would be of the form host/resource instead of the form 
     * user@host/resource.
     * 
     * @param user the user@host/resource that has just logged in
     */
    public abstract void userHasLogged(String user);

    /**
     * Returns the special Reader that wraps the main Reader and logs data to the GUI.
     * 
     * @return the special Reader that wraps the main Reader and logs data to the GUI.
     */
    public abstract Reader getReader();

    /**
     * Returns the special Writer that wraps the main Writer and logs data to the GUI.
     * 
     * @return the special Writer that wraps the main Writer and logs data to the GUI.
     */
    public abstract Writer getWriter();

    /**
     * Returns the thread that will listen for all incoming packets and write them to the GUI. 
     * This is what we call "interpreted" packet data, since it's the packet data as Smack sees 
     * it and not as it's coming in as raw XML.
     * 
     * @return the PacketListener that will listen for all incoming packets and write them to 
     * the GUI
     */
    public abstract PacketListener getReaderListener();

    /**
     * Returns the thread that will listen for all outgoing packets and write them to the GUI. 
     * 
     * @return the PacketListener that will listen for all sent packets and write them to 
     * the GUI
     */
    public abstract PacketListener getWriterListener();
}