/*
* Copyright 2014 Robert von Burg <eitch@eitchnet.ch>
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
package li.strolch.communication;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import li.strolch.communication.console.ConsoleMessageVisitor;
/**
* <p>
* Visitors to read and write {@link IoMessage} using different kind of endpoints. Different endpoints will require
* different ways of writing or reading message, thus this is not defined here. Known extensions are
* {@link ConsoleMessageVisitor}, {@link StreamMessageVisitor}.
* </p>
*
* <p>
* Concrete implementations must be thread safe!
* </p>
*
* @author Robert von Burg <eitch@eitchnet.ch>
*/
public abstract class IoMessageVisitor {
protected static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(IoMessageVisitor.class);
protected CommunicationConnection connection;
public void configure(CommunicationConnection connection) {
this.connection = connection;
}
public void simulate(IoMessage ioMessage) {
// allow for subclasses to implement
}
}