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package org.hyperic.util.pager;
/**
* Provides a point of extensibility in the paging behavior.
* If you supply a PagerProcessor when you get a Pager,
* then that processor will be called to process each element
* as the pager moves it from the source collection to the
* destination collection.
*/
public interface PagerProcessorExt extends PagerProcessor {
/**
* Get the event handler for this pager. May return null to indicate
* that no event handler should be used.
*/
public PagerEventHandler getEventHandler ();
/**
* Determines if null values are included in the Pager's results.
* @return If this method returns true, then when the processElement
* method returns null, that element will not be included in the results.
* If this methods returns false, then nulls may be added to the result
* page.
*/
public boolean skipNulls ();
/**
* Process an element as the pager moves it from the source
* collection to the destination collection. This version
* allows an additional argument to be passed along.
* @param o1 The object to process.
* @param o2 Additional data required to processElement.
* @return The processed object.
*/
public Object processElement ( Object o1, Object o2 );
}