org/sonews/daemon/command/Command.java
author cli
Sat May 01 14:27:30 2010 +0200 (2010-05-01)
changeset 28 15d14b110240
parent 3 2fdc9cc89502
permissions -rw-r--r--
Make mailinglist gateway more reliable, probably.
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/*
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 *   SONEWS News Server
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 *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
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 *
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 *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 *   (at your option) any later version.
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 *
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 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *   GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *
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 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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 */
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package org.sonews.daemon.command;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import org.sonews.daemon.NNTPConnection;
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import org.sonews.storage.StorageBackendException;
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/**
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 * Interface for pluggable NNTP commands handling classes.
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 * @author Christian Lins
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 * @since sonews/0.6.0
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 */
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public interface Command
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{
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  /**
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   * @return true if this instance can be reused.
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   */
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  boolean hasFinished();
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  /**
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   * Returns capability string that is implied by this command class.
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   * MAY return null if the command is required by the NNTP standard.
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   */
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  String impliedCapability();
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  boolean isStateful();
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  String[] getSupportedCommandStrings();
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  void processLine(NNTPConnection conn, String line, byte[] rawLine)
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    throws IOException, StorageBackendException;
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}