/*
* Created on 29/giu/2010
*
* Copyright 2010 by Andrea Vacondio (andrea.vacondio@gmail.com).
*
* This file is part of the Sejda source code
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.sejda.core.support.prefix.processor;
import org.sejda.core.support.prefix.model.NameGenerationRequest;
/**
* A Processor takes a prefix string and applies the transformation it's designed for. Please consider that we currently reuse instances across multiple parameters execution
* therefor implementations have to be stateless to avoid unexpected behavior.
*
* @author Andrea Vacondio
*/
@FunctionalInterface
interface PrefixProcessor {
/**
* Process the input prefix String based on the input request returning the processed String
*
* @param inputPrefix
* input prefix String
* @param request
* name generation request. It can be null, the processor should handle it without throwing a NullPointerException.
* @return the post processed inputPrefix
*/
String process(String inputPrefix, NameGenerationRequest request);
}