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package jakarta.faces.render;
import jakarta.faces.component.UIComponent;
import jakarta.faces.component.behavior.ClientBehavior;
import jakarta.faces.component.behavior.ClientBehaviorContext;
import jakarta.faces.context.FacesContext;
/**
*
* A ClientBehaviorRenderer produces the client-side script that implements a
* {@link ClientBehavior}'s client-side logic. It can also enqueue server-side
* {@link jakarta.faces.event.BehaviorEvent}s that may be processed later by event listeners that have registered an
* interest.
*
*
*
* Individual {@link ClientBehaviorRenderer} instances will be instantiated as requested during the rendering process,
* and will remain in existence for the remainder of the lifetime of a web application. Because each instance may be
* invoked from more than one request processing thread simultaneously, they MUST be programmed in a thread-safe manner.
*
*
* @since 2.0
*/
public abstract class ClientBehaviorRenderer {
// ------------------------------------------------------ Rendering Methods
/**
*
* Return the script that implements this ClientBehavior's client-side logic. The default implementation returns
* null.
*
*
*
* ClientBehaviorRenderer.getScript() implementations are allowed to return null to indicate that no script is required
* for this particular getScript() call. For example, a ClientBehaviorRenderer implementation may return null if the
* associated ClientBehavior is disabled.
*
*
* @param behaviorContext the {@link ClientBehaviorContext} that provides properties that might influence this
* getScript() call. Note that ClientBehaviorContext instances are short-lived objects that are only valid for the
* duration of the call to getScript(). ClientBehaviorRenderer implementations must not hold onto references to
* ClientBehaviorContexts.
*
* @param behavior the ClientBehavior instance that generates script.
*
* @return script that provides the client-side behavior, or null if no script is required.
*
* @since 2.0
*
*/
public String getScript(ClientBehaviorContext behaviorContext, ClientBehavior behavior) {
return null;
}
/**
*
* Decode any new state of this {@link ClientBehavior} from the request contained in the specified {@link FacesContext}.
*
*
*
* During decoding, events may be enqueued for later processing (by event listeners who have registered an interest), by
* calling queueEvent().
*
*
* @param context {@link FacesContext} for the request we are processing
* @param component {@link UIComponent} the component associated with this
* {@link jakarta.faces.component.behavior.Behavior}
* @param behavior {@link ClientBehavior} the behavior instance
*
* @throws NullPointerException if context, component behavior is
* null
*
* @since 2.0
*/
public void decode(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, ClientBehavior behavior) {
if (null == context || null == component || behavior == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
}
}