org.macroing.cit.messaging

Interface MessageTranslator

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface MessageTranslator

A MessageTranslator is used to translate one Message being processed by a MessageChannel instance, into a possibly different one.

One use-case would be to encode or decode Messages.

To use this interface, consider the following example.

 
 MessageChannel messageChannel = new MessageChannel();
 messageChannel.addMessageTranslator(new MyMessageTranslator());
 
 

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Jörgen Lundgren

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Message	translate(Message message) Returns a Message that represents a potentially translated version of message.

Method Detail

translate

Message translate(Message message)

Returns a Message that represents a potentially translated version of message.

Parameters:

message - the Message to translate or return as is

Returns:

a Message that represents a potentially translated version of message