package org.wso2.carbon.inbound.endpoint.protocol.hl7;
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/**
* This interface represents an implementation of a preprocessor which is used to modify the incoming
* HL7 message before parsing.
*/
public interface HL7MessagePreprocessor {
/**
* Processes the incoming message and returns a possibly modified message.
* @param message The incomding message
* @param type The type of the message, i.e. v2 or v3, defined at Axis2HL7Constants.MessageType
* @param encoding The encoding of the message, i.e. ER7 or XML,
* defined at Axis2HL7Constants.MessageEncoding
* @return
*/
String process(String message, String type, String encoding);
}