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package org.apache.axiom.soap;

import org.apache.axiom.om.OMSourcedElement;

/**
 * An object representing the contents in the SOAP header part of the SOAP envelope. The
 * immediate children of a  SOAPHeader object can be represented only as 
 * SOAPHeaderBlock objects.
 B SOAPHeaderBlock object can have other
 * OMElement objects as its children.
 */
public interface SOAPHeaderBlock extends OMSourcedElement {
    
    /**
     * A SOAPHeaderBlock may be represented as an unexpanded OMSourcedElement.
     * In such cases, the underlying OMDataSource may have a property that contains
     * the value of the ROLE/ACTOR, RELAY or MUST_UNDERSTAND setting.
     */
    public String ROLE_PROPERTY = "org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPHeader.ROLE";
    public String RELAY_PROPERTY = "org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPHeader.RELAY";
    public String MUST_UNDERSTAND_PROPERTY = "org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPHeader.MUST_UNDERSTAND";
    
    /**
     * Sets the actor associated with this  SOAPHeaderBlock object to the specified
     * actor.
     *
     * @param roleURI a String giving the URI of the actor to set
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *          if there is a problem in setting the actor.
     * @see #getRole() getRole()
     */
    void setRole(String roleURI);

    /**
     * Returns the uri of the actor associated with this  SOAPHeaderBlock object.
     *
     * @return a String giving the URI of the actor
     * @see #setRole(String) setRole(java.lang.String)
     */
    String getRole();

    /**
     * Sets the mustUnderstand attribute for this  SOAPHeaderBlock object to be on or
     * off. If the mustUnderstand attribute is on, the actor who receives the
     * SOAPHeaderBlock must process it correctly. This ensures, for example, that if
     * the  SOAPHeaderBlock object modifies the message, that the message is being
     * modified correctly.
     *
     * @param mustUnderstand true to set the mustUnderstand attribute on;
     *                       false to turn if off
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *          if there is a problem in setting the actor.
     * @see #getMustUnderstand() getMustUnderstand()
     */
    void setMustUnderstand(boolean mustUnderstand);

    /**
     * Returns the boolean value of the {@code mustUnderstand} attribute for this header block.
     * 
     * @return true if a {@code mustUnderstand} attribute is present and its value is
     *         equivalent to true, false if the {@code mustUnderstand} is not present
     *         or its value is equivalent to false
     * @throws SOAPProcessingException
     *             if the {@code mustUnderstand} attribute is present, but has an invalid value
     */
    boolean getMustUnderstand() throws SOAPProcessingException;

    boolean isProcessed();

    /**
     * We need to know whether all the mustUnderstand headers have been processed by the node. This
     * will done by a specific validation handler at the end of the execution chain. For this all
     * the handlers who process a particular header block must explicitly say that he processesd the
     * header by calling setProcessed()
     */
    void setProcessed();


    /**
     * Sets the relay attribute for this SOAPHeaderBlock to be either true or false. The SOAP relay
     * attribute is set to true to indicate that the SOAP header block must be relayed by any node
     * that is targeted by the header block but not actually process it.
     *
     * @param relay a boolean giving the value to be set
     */
    void setRelay(boolean relay);

    /**
     * Returns the relay  status associated with this  SOAPHeaderBlock object.
     *
     * @return a boolean giving the relay status
     */
    boolean getRelay();

    /**
     * What SOAP version is this HeaderBlock?
     *
     * @return a SOAPVersion, one of the two singletons.
     */
    SOAPVersion getVersion();
}