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.listener; 16 17 import org.apache.tapestry.IActionListener; 18 import org.apache.tapestry.IComponent; 19 import org.apache.tapestry.IRequestCycle; 20 21 /** 22 * Pipeline service interface for the tapestry.listener.ListenerInvoker pipeline service. 23 * 24 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship 25 * @since 4.0 26 * @see org.apache.tapestry.listener.ListenerInvokerFilter 27 */ 28 public interface ListenerInvoker 29 { 30 /** 31 * Part of the pipeline for invoking the given listener object. This may be supplemented by 32 * various filters. 33 * 34 * @param listener 35 * to be invoked, may be null if no listener is found (a convienience for all the 36 * places where listeners are optional) 37 * @param source 38 * the component generating the listener "event", to be passed to the listener. Not 39 * generally used, but may not be null. 40 * @param cycle 41 * the current request cycle, to be passed to the listener. 42 */ 43 44 public void invokeListener(IActionListener listener, IComponent source, IRequestCycle cycle); 45 } 46