From dd57b645706933c7c69bd00a6d1cb88b43201d76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gaston Dombiak <gaston@jivesoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:47:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Initial version. SMACK-104

git-svn-id: http://svn.igniterealtime.org/svn/repos/smack/trunk@3019 b35dd754-fafc-0310-a699-88a17e54d16e
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 .../jivesoftware/smack/PacketInterceptor.java | 49 +++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketInterceptor.java

diff --git a/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketInterceptor.java b/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketInterceptor.java
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+/**
+ * $Revision: 2408 $
+ * $Date: 2004-11-02 20:53:30 -0300 (Tue, 02 Nov 2004) $
+ *
+ * Copyright 2003-2005 Jive Software.
+ *
+ * All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.jivesoftware.smack;
+
+import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Packet;
+
+/**
+ * Provides a mechanism to intercept and modify packets that are going to be
+ * sent to the server. PacketInterceptors are added to the {@link XMPPConnection}
+ * together with a {@link org.jivesoftware.smack.filter.PacketFilter} so that only
+ * certain packets are intercepted and processed by the interceptor.<p>
+ *
+ * This allows event-style programming -- every time a new packet is found,
+ * the {@link #interceptPacket(Packet)} method will be called.
+ *
+ * @see XMPPConnection#addPacketWriterInterceptor(PacketInterceptor, org.jivesoftware.smack.filter.PacketFilter)
+ * @author Gaston Dombiak
+ */
+public interface PacketInterceptor {
+
+    /**
+     * Process the packet that is about to be sent to the server. The intercepted
+     * packet can be modified by the interceptor.<p>
+     *
+     * Interceptors are invoked using the same thread that requested the packet
+     * to be sent, so it's very important that implementations of this method
+     * not block for any extended period of time.
+     *
+     * @param packet the packet to is going to be sent to the server.
+     */
+    public void interceptPacket(Packet packet);
+}