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package com.holonplatform.vaadin7.components.builders;

import com.holonplatform.vaadin7.components.Input;

/**
 * Builder to create {@link String} type {@link Input} instances with hidden input, used to enter secret text
 * information like passwords.
 * 
 * @since 5.0.0
 */
public interface SecretInputBuilder extends InputBuilder, SecretInputBuilder> {

	/**
	 * Enable or disable treating empty String values as null values.
	 * 
	 * By default this behaviour is enabled.
	 * 
	 * @param enable True to treat empty String values as null values
	 * @return this
	 */
	SecretInputBuilder emptyValuesAsNull(boolean enable);

	/**
	 * Enable or disable treating blank String values (with 0 length or whitespaces only Strings) as null
	 * values.
	 * 
	 * By default this behaviour is disabled.
	 * 
	 * @param enable True to treat blank String values (with 0 length or whitespaces only Strings) as null
	 *        values
	 * @return this
	 */
	SecretInputBuilder blankValuesAsNull(boolean enable);

}