001/*
002 * Copyright 2009-2020 Ping Identity Corporation
003 * All Rights Reserved.
004 */
005/*
006 * Copyright 2009-2020 Ping Identity Corporation
007 *
008 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
009 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
010 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
011 *
012 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
013 *
014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
015 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
016 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
017 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
018 * limitations under the License.
019 */
020/*
021 * Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Ping Identity Corporation
022 *
023 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
024 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 only)
025 * or the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv2.1 only)
026 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
027 *
028 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
029 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
030 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
031 * GNU General Public License for more details.
032 *
033 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
034 * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
035 */
036package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk;
037
038
039
040import java.io.Serializable;
041
042import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
043import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
044import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;
045
046
047
048/**
049 * This interface defines a method that may be used to process intermediate
050 * response messages that are returned to the client while processing an
051 * operation.  If an operation may return intermediate response messages, then
052 * an intermediate response listener must be registered with the associated
053 * request (via the {@link LDAPRequest#setIntermediateResponseListener} method)
054 * in order to be able to access the intermediate response messages.
055 *
056 * @see  IntermediateResponse
057 */
058@Extensible()
059@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
060public interface IntermediateResponseListener
061       extends Serializable
062{
063  /**
064   * Indicates that the provided intermediate response has been returned by the
065   * server and may be processed by this intermediate response listener.
066   *
067   * @param  intermediateResponse  The intermediate response that has been
068   *                               returned by the server.
069   */
070  void intermediateResponseReturned(IntermediateResponse intermediateResponse);
071}