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/*
 * ====================================================================
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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 *
 * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
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package ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib;

import java.io.IOException;

import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * HTTP protocol interceptor is a routine that implements a specific aspect of
 * the HTTP protocol. Usually protocol interceptors are expected to act upon
 * one specific header or a group of related headers of the incoming message
 * or populate the outgoing message with one specific header or a group of
 * related headers.
 * <p>
 *  Protocol Interceptors can also manipulate content entities enclosed with messages.
 * Usually this is accomplished by using the 'Decorator' pattern where a wrapper
 * entity class is used to decorate the original entity.
 * <p>
 * Protocol interceptors must be implemented as thread-safe. Similarly to
 * servlets, protocol interceptors should not use instance variables unless
 * access to those variables is synchronized.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface HttpRequestInterceptor {

    /**
     * Processes a request.
     * On the client side, this step is performed before the request is
     * sent to the server. On the server side, this step is performed
     * on incoming messages before the message body is evaluated.
     *
     * @param request   the request to preprocess
     * @param context   the context for the request
     *
     * @throws HttpException in case of an HTTP protocol violation
     * @throws IOException in case of an I/O error
     */
    void process(HttpRequest request, HttpContext context)
        throws HttpException, IOException;

}