de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.filter

Interface AppendableEventFilter

All Superinterfaces:

EventFilter, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

CascadingEventFilter, CompositeEventFilter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultCompositeEventFilter, DefaultEventFilter

public interface AppendableEventFilter
extends EventFilter

AppendableEventFilter ensures that the EventFilter can handle more attached EventFilter instances. Depending on the implementation of the AppendableEventFilter, the method EventFilter.match(de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.Event) of the super class must be called first, when the method is overwritten.

Author:

sstrohschein
Date: 04.03.2009
Time: 20:18:01

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AppendableEventFilter	attach(EventFilter anEventFilter) Appends another EventFilter which should also be used/called from the match method (EventFilter.match(de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.Event)).

Methods inherited from interface de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.filter.EventFilter

match

Method Detail

attach

AppendableEventFilter attach(EventFilter anEventFilter)

Appends another EventFilter which should also be used/called from the match method (EventFilter.match(de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.Event)).

Parameters:

anEventFilter - EventFilter to attach

Returns:

the created AppendableEventFilter (to attach more EventFilter instances)