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package javax.faces.event;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
/**
* A listener interface for
* receiving {@link ActionEvent}s. An
* implementation
* of this interface must be thread-safe. A class that
* is interested in receiving such events implements this interface, and then
* registers itself with the source {@link UIComponent} of interest, by
* calling addActionListener()
.
*/
public interface ActionListener extends FacesListener {
/**
* The presence of this component attribute
* on an {@link javax.faces.component.ActionSource} component will cause
* the default {@code ActionListener} to interpret the value of the
* attribute as the toFlowDocumentId value to pass to
* {@link javax.faces.application.NavigationHandler#handleNavigation(javax.faces.context.FacesContext, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)}.
*
*/
public static final String TO_FLOW_DOCUMENT_ID_ATTR_NAME = "to-flow-document-id";
/**
* Invoked when the action described by the specified
* {@link ActionEvent} occurs.
*
* @param event The {@link ActionEvent} that has occurred
*
* @throws AbortProcessingException Signal the Jakarta Server Faces
* implementation that no further processing on the current event
* should be performed
*/
public void processAction(ActionEvent event)
throws AbortProcessingException;
}