/**
* Copyright (c) 2013, Redsolution LTD. All rights reserved.
*
* This file is part of Xabber project; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.
*
* Xabber 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 General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License,
* along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
*/
package com.xabber.xmpp;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;
/**
* Representation of some XML instance.
*
* @author alexander.ivanov
*/
public interface Instance {
// TODO: Invalidate iq packets and packet extensions shouldn't be delivered
// to the ConnectionManager.
/**
* @return Whether parsed instance has valid values (e.g. required field are
* not <code>null</code>).
*/
boolean isValid();
/**
* Serializes an instance into XML using serializer.
*
* @param serializer
* @throws IOException
*/
void serialize(XmlSerializer serializer) throws IOException;
}