org.codehaus.plexus.summit.pipeline
Interface Pipeline

All Superinterfaces:

SummitComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPipeline, SummitPipeline

public interface Pipeline
extends SummitComponent

A Pipeline is the entity which controls the flow of the request/response lifecyle in Summit.

Version:

$Id: Pipeline.java 2082 2005-06-05 02:58:52Z jvanzyl $

Author:

Jason van Zyl

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	ROLE
static java.lang.String	SELECTOR_ROLE

Method Summary

java.util.List	getValves()
void	invoke(RunData data) Cause the specified request and response to be processed by the sequence of Valves associated with this pipeline, until one of these Valves decides to end the processing.

Methods inherited from interface org.codehaus.plexus.summit.SummitComponent

getContainer, lookup, lookup

Field Detail

ROLE

static final java.lang.String ROLE

SELECTOR_ROLE

static final java.lang.String SELECTOR_ROLE

Method Detail

invoke

void invoke(RunData data)
            throws java.io.IOException,
                   ValveInvocationException

Cause the specified request and response to be processed by the sequence of Valves associated with this pipeline, until one of these Valves decides to end the processing.

The implementation must ensure that multiple simultaneous requests (on different threads) can be processed through the same Pipeline without interfering with each other's control flow.

Parameters:

data - The run-time information, including the servlet request and response we are processing.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - an input/output error occurred.

ValveInvocationException

getValves

java.util.List getValves()