001// Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 002// 003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005// You may obtain a copy of the License at 006// 007// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008// 009// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013// limitations under the License. 014 015package org.apache.tapestry.listener; 016 017import org.apache.tapestry.IActionListener; 018import org.apache.tapestry.IComponent; 019import org.apache.tapestry.IRequestCycle; 020 021/** 022 * Pipeline service interface for the tapestry.listener.ListenerInvoker pipeline service. 023 * 024 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship 025 * @since 4.0 026 * @see org.apache.tapestry.listener.ListenerInvokerFilter 027 */ 028public interface ListenerInvoker 029{ 030 /** 031 * Part of the pipeline for invoking the given listener object. This may be supplemented by 032 * various filters. 033 * 034 * @param listener 035 * to be invoked, may be null if no listener is found (a convienience for all the 036 * places where listeners are optional) 037 * @param source 038 * the component generating the listener "event", to be passed to the listener. Not 039 * generally used, but may not be null. 040 * @param cycle 041 * the current request cycle, to be passed to the listener. 042 */ 043 044 public void invokeListener(IActionListener listener, IComponent source, IRequestCycle cycle); 045}