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.markup; 016 017import java.io.PrintWriter; 018 019/** 020 * Filter used with {@link org.apache.tapestry.markup.MarkupWriterImpl}to determine how to convert 021 * the output into a format compatible with the content type. Typically, this means translating 022 * certain characters into escape codes (for example, in HTML, convert '<' to '&lt;'. 023 * <p> 024 * Implementations should be stateless and thread safe. 025 * 026 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship 027 * @since 4.0 028 */ 029public interface MarkupFilter 030{ 031 /** 032 * Print the value to the writer, escaping characters as necessary. 033 * 034 * @param writer 035 * the write to which converted content should be output 036 * @param data 037 * a character array containing the characters to be output 038 * @param offset 039 * the offset within the array to begin output 040 * @param length 041 * the number of characters to output 042 * @param escapeQuotes 043 * if true, the value is being rendered as an attribute value and double quotes 044 * within the value should be escaped. If false, then then double quotes may pass 045 * through unchanged. 046 */ 047 048 public void print(PrintWriter writer, char[] data, int offset, int length, boolean escapeQuotes); 049 050}