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package org.apache.http.nio.protocol;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.http.HttpException;
import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
import org.apache.http.nio.ContentDecoder;
import org.apache.http.nio.IOControl;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * {@code HttpAsyncRequestConsumer} is a callback interface whose methods
 * get invoked to process an HTTP request message and to stream message
 * content from a non-blocking HTTP connection on the server side.
 *
 * @param  the result type of request processing.
 * @since 4.2
 */
public interface HttpAsyncRequestConsumer extends Closeable {

    /**
     * Invoked when a HTTP request message is received. Please note
     * that the {@link #consumeContent(ContentDecoder, IOControl)} method
     * will be invoked only for if the request message implements
     * {@link org.apache.http.HttpEntityEnclosingRequest} interface and
     * has a content entity enclosed.
     *
     * @param request HTTP request message.
     * @throws HttpException in case of HTTP protocol violation
     * @throws IOException in case of an I/O error
     */
    void requestReceived(HttpRequest request) throws HttpException, IOException;

    /**
     * Invoked to process a chunk of content from the {@link ContentDecoder}.
     * The {@link IOControl} interface can be used to suspend input event
     * notifications if the consumer is temporarily unable to process content.
     * 
     * The consumer can use the {@link ContentDecoder#isCompleted()} method
     * to find out whether or not the message content has been fully consumed.
     * 
     * Please note that the {@link ContentDecoder} object is not thread-safe and
     * should only be used within the context of this method call.
     * The {@link IOControl} object can be shared and used on other thread
     * to resume input event notifications when the consumer is capable of
     * processing more content.
     *
     * @param decoder content decoder.
     * @param ioctrl I/O control of the underlying connection.
     * @throws IOException in case of an I/O error
     */
    void consumeContent(ContentDecoder decoder, IOControl ioctrl) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Invoked to signal that the request has been fully processed.
     *
     * @param context HTTP context
     */
    void requestCompleted(HttpContext context);

    /**
     * Invoked to signal that the request processing terminated abnormally.
     *
     * @param ex exception
     */
    void failed(Exception ex);

    /**
     * Returns an exception in case of an abnormal termination. This method
     * returns {@code null} if the request execution is still ongoing
     * or if it completed successfully.
     *
     * @see #isDone()
     */
    Exception getException();

    /**
     * Returns a result of the request execution, when available. This method
     * returns {@code null} if the request execution is still ongoing.
     *
     * @see #isDone()
     */
    T getResult();

    /**
     * Determines whether or not the request execution completed. If the
     * request processing terminated normally {@link #getResult()}
     * can be used to obtain the result. If the request processing terminated
     * abnormally {@link #getException()} can be used to obtain the cause.
     */
    boolean isDone();

}