1 // Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 2 // 3 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 4 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 5 // You may obtain a copy of the License at 6 // 7 // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 8 // 9 // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 10 // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 11 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 12 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 13 // limitations under the License. 14 15 package org.apache.tapestry; 16 17 /** 18 * A writer that is created by, and nested within, another markup writer. This is used by many 19 * components that need to render their bodies to fully determine how to write the markup before 20 * their bodies; the markup is stored inside the nested markup writer until needed. 21 * 22 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship 23 * @since 4.0 24 * @see org.apache.tapestry.IMarkupWriter#getNestedWriter() 25 */ 26 public interface NestedMarkupWriter extends IMarkupWriter 27 { 28 /** 29 * Returns any makrup so far accumulated by the nested markup writer. When the nested markup 30 * writer is closed, it invokes {@link org.apache.tapestry.IMarkupWriter#printRaw(String)}, 31 * with this content, on its parent markup writer. 32 */ 33 34 public String getBuffer(); 35 }