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package org.apache.commons.digester;

/**
 * An interface that can be implemented in order to get notifications of
 * objects being pushed onto a digester stack or popped from one.
 * <p>
 * Because objects are pushed onto the main object stack when a rule
 * has created a new object, this gives the ability to intercept such
 * operations and perform modifications on created objects.
 * <p>
 * One use expected for this interface is to store information about the xml
 * line that a particular object was created from. An implementation of this
 * interface can detect whenever an object is pushed onto the digester object
 * stack, call Digester.getDocumentLocator() to get the location within the
 * current xml file, and store this either on the object on the stack (if it
 * supports some user-specific interface for this purpose), or build a map of
 * (object->locationinfo) separately.
 * <p>
 * It is recommended that objects implementing this interface provide
 * a method to set a "next" action, and invoke it from the callback
 * methods. This allows multiple actions to be "chained" together.
 * <p>
 * See also Digester.setStackAction.
 * 
 * @since 1.8
 */
public interface StackAction {
    /**
     * Invoked just before an object is to be pushed onto a digester stack.
     * 
     * @param d is the digester instance.
     * 
     * @param stackName is the name of the stack onto which the object
     * has been pushed. Null is passed to indicate the default stack.
     * 
     * @param o is the object that has just been pushed. Calling peek on the
     * specified stack will return the same object.
     * 
     * @return the object to be pushed. Normally, parameter o is returned
     * but this method could return an alternate object to be pushed
     * instead (eg a proxy for the provided object).
     */
    public Object onPush(Digester d, String stackName, Object o);

    /**
     * Invoked just after an object has been popped from a digester stack.
     * 
     * @param d is the digester instance.
     * 
     * @param stackName is the name of the stack from which the object
     * has been popped. Null is passed to indicate the default stack.
     * 
     * @param o is the object that has just been popped.
     * 
     * @return the object to be returned to the called. Normally, parameter
     * o is returned but this method could return an alternate object.
     */
    public Object onPop(Digester d, String stackName, Object o);
}
