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package io.undertow.security.api;

/**
 * The interface to be interested by classes interested in processing security related notifications.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:darran.lofthouse@jboss.com">Darran Lofthouse</a>
 */
public interface NotificationReceiver {

    /**
     * Handle a security related notification.
     *
     * The {@link SecurityNotification} that is sent to be handled is a security event that has occurred, this is not an
     * opportunity for that event to be validated - any Exception thrown by the handler will be logged but will not affect the
     * result of the security event.
     *
     * The notifications are sent on the same thread that is currently processing the request that triggered the notification,
     * if the handling of the notification is likely to be blocking then it should be dispatched to it's own worker thread. The
     * one exception to this may be where the notification must be sure to have been handled before the response continues.
     *
     * @param notification
     */
    void handleNotification(SecurityNotification notification);

}
