blob: 2137876b7f39c190889715fa3d36697e3d798459 [file] [log] [blame]
/**********************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 *
* Contributors:
* IBM - Initial API and implementation
**********************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.wst.internet.monitor.core;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* A content filter that filters contents from the monitor traffic on a request.
* <p>
* This abstract class is intended to be extended only by clients
* to extend the <code>contentFilters</code> extension point.
* </p>
*
* @since 1.0
*/
public abstract class ContentFilterDelegate {
/**
* Filter the given content from the given request. The content that has been filtered out will
* not be shown to clients of the TCP/IP monitor.
*
* @param request the request that the filter will be performed on
* @param isRequest set to true if the content filter applies to request monitor traffic,
* or set to false if the content filter applies to the response monitor traffic
* @param content the message content to be filtered out
* @return the filtered content
* @throws IOException if there is an error while parsing or filtering the content
*/
public abstract byte[] filter(IRequest request, boolean isRequest, byte[] content) throws IOException;
}