1 /** 2 * All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 3 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 4 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 5 * 6 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 7 * 8 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 9 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 10 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 11 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 12 * limitations under the License. 13 */ 14 package org.jivesoftware.smackx.pubsub; 15 16 import java.util.List; 17 18 import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Packet; 19 import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.PacketExtension; 20 import org.jivesoftware.smack.util.PacketParserUtils; 21 22 /** 23 * This interface defines {@link PacketExtension} implementations that contain other 24 * extensions. This effectively extends the idea of an extension within one of the 25 * top level {@link Packet} types to consider any embedded element to be an extension 26 * of its parent. This more easily enables the usage of some of Smacks parsing 27 * utilities such as {@link PacketParserUtils#parsePacketExtension(String, String, org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser)} to be used 28 * to parse any element of the XML being parsed. 29 * 30 * <p>Top level extensions have only one element, but they can have multiple children, or 31 * their children can have multiple children. This interface is a way of allowing extensions 32 * to be embedded within one another as a partial or complete one to one mapping of extension 33 * to element. 34 * 35 * @author Robin Collier 36 */ 37 public interface EmbeddedPacketExtension extends PacketExtension 38 { 39 /** 40 * Get the list of embedded {@link PacketExtension} objects. 41 * 42 * @return List of embedded {@link PacketExtension} 43 */ 44 List<PacketExtension> getExtensions(); 45 } 46
