com.bea.p13n.appflow.webflow
Interface InputProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPortalProcessor, InputProcessorSupport

public interface InputProcessor

The interface InputProcessor should be implemented by classses that needs to perform:

• validation of user's data.
• store the data entered by the user into the PipelineSession so that it can be retrieved later by other processors such as Pipelines.

See Also:

PipelineSession, ProcessingException, InputProcessorSupport

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

process(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req, java.lang.Object requestContext) Process the HttpServletRequest or the PipelineSession present in the HttpSession.

Method Detail

process

public java.lang.Object process(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req,
                                java.lang.Object requestContext)
                         throws ProcessingException

Process the HttpServletRequest or the PipelineSession present in the HttpSession. The return object can be anything, but it must have a meaningful implementation of toString(). The webflow executor will call toString() on the returned object to generate the event for the processor.

Parameters:

req - the HttpServletRequest object

requestContext - the Object that uniquely identifies the request

Returns:

an Object, which has implemented a meaningful form of toString().

Throws:

ProcessingException - or one of its sub-classes