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/*
 * Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package javax.xml.rpc.handler;

import javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

/** The javax.xml.rpc.handler.GenericHandler class
 *  implements the Handler interface. SOAP Message
 *  Handler developers should typically subclass 
 *  GenericHandler class unless the Handler class 
 *  needs another class as a superclass.
 *
 *  The GenericHandler class is a convenience abstract
 *  class that makes writing Handlers easy. This class provides 
 *  default implementations of the lifecycle methods init
 *  and destroy and also different handle methods. 
 *  A Handler developer should only override methods that it needs
 *  to specialize as part of the derived Handler 
 *  implementation class.
 *  
 *  @version 1.0
 *  @author  Rahul Sharma
**/

public abstract class GenericHandler implements Handler {

  /** Default constructor
  **/
  protected GenericHandler() {}

  /** The handleRequest method processes the request 
   *  SOAP message. The default implementation of this method returns 
   *  true. This indicates that the handler chain
   *  should continue processing of the request SOAP message.
   *  This method should be overridden if the derived Handler class
   *  needs to specialize implementation of this method.   
   *
   *  @see javax.xml.rpc.handler.Handler#handleRequest
  **/
  public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext context) {
    return true;
  }

  /** The handleResponse method processes the response 
   *  message. The default implementation of this method returns 
   *  true. This indicates that the handler chain
   *  should continue processing of the response SOAP message.
   *  This method should be overridden if the derived Handler class 
   *  needs to specialize implementation of this method.
   *
   *  @see javax.xml.rpc.handler.Handler#handleResponse
  **/
  public boolean handleResponse(MessageContext context) {
    return true;
  }

  /** The handleFault method processes the SOAP faults 
   *  based on the SOAP message processing model. The default
   *  implementation of this method returns true. This 
   *  indicates that the handler chain should continue processing
   *  of the SOAP fault. This method should be overridden if
   *  the derived Handler class needs to specialize implementation
   *  of this method.
   *
   *  @see javax.xml.rpc.handler.Handler#handleFault
  **/
  public boolean handleFault(MessageContext context) {
    return true;
  }

  /** The init method to enable the Handler instance to 
   *  initialize itself. This method should be overridden if
   *  the derived Handler class needs to specialize implementation
   *  of this method.
   *
   *  @see javax.xml.rpc.handler.Handler#init
  **/
  public void init(HandlerInfo config) {
  }

  /** The destroy method indicates the end of lifecycle 
   *  for a Handler instance. This method should be overridden if
   *  the derived Handler class needs to specialize implementation
   *  of this method.
   *
   *  @see javax.xml.rpc.handler.Handler#destroy
  **/
  public void destroy() {
  }

  /** Gets the header blocks processed by this Handler instance.
   *
   *  @return  Array of QNames of header blocks processed by this
   *           handler instance. QName is the qualified 
   *           name of the outermost element of the Header block.
  **/
  public abstract QName[] getHeaders();
}