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Service API to watch changes on files/directories.
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/*Copyright (C) 2017 Roland Hauser, 

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package ch.sourcepond.io.fileobserver.api;


/**
 * A {@link PathChangeListener} is able to specify which file changes should be observed. To do the necessary restrict,
 * an object implementing this interface is passed to the {@link PathChangeListener#restrict(DispatchRestriction, java.nio.file.FileSystem)} method
 * of a listener when it is being registered. Note:
 * 
 * If neither {@link #accept(Object...)} nor {@link #acceptAll()} has ever been called during the listener registration, the
 * listener will not receive any events at all!
 * If {@link #accept(Object...)} has been called, the listener will only accept events when their
 * {@link PathChangeEvent#getKey()} method returns an accepted value.
 * When none of the {@code add*} methods has been called during the listener registration, any dispatch event or
 * file/directory discard will be delivered, if the directory-key is accepted.
 * When one of the {@code add*} methods has been called at least once, a dispatch event or file/directory
 * discard will only be delivered, if {@link DispatchKey#getRelativePath()} matches one of the compound
 * path matchers, and, if the directory-key is accepted.
 * 
 */
public interface DispatchRestriction extends SimpleDispatchRestriction {

    /**
     * Specifies, which directory-keys should be accepted by the {@link PathChangeListener}. This means, that
     * dispatch events or a file/directory discards are pre-filtered before any added path-matcher applies (if
     * any, see {@link #addPathMatcher(String)} and {@link #addPathMatcher(java.nio.file.PathMatcher)}).
     *
     * @param pDirectoryKeys Directory-keys which are accepted by the listener, must not be {@code null}
     * @throws NullPointerException Thrown, if a key is {@code null}.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException Thrown, if no keys are specified, i.e. the vararg is empty.
     * @throws IllegalStateException Thrown, if either this method or {@link #acceptAll()} has already been called.
     */
    SimpleDispatchRestriction accept(Object... pDirectoryKeys);

    /**
     * Specifies, that all directory-keys should be accepted by the {@link PathChangeListener}. This means, that
     * any dispatch event or a file/directory discard is directly matched against the registered compound path-matcher
     * (if any, see {@link #addPathMatcher(String)} and {@link #addPathMatcher(java.nio.file.PathMatcher)}).
     *
     * @throws IllegalStateException Thrown, if either this method or {@link #accept(Object...)} has already been called.
     */
    SimpleDispatchRestriction acceptAll();
}