1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005 the original author or authors.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16
17 package org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint;
18
19 import javax.xml.transform.Source;
20
21 /**
22 * Defines the basic contract for Web Services interested in just the message payload.
23 * <p/>
24 * The main entrypoint is {@link #invoke(Source)}, which gets invoked with the contents of the requesting message.
25 *
26 * @author Arjen Poutsma
27 * @since 1.0.0
28 */
29 public interface PayloadEndpoint {
30
31 /**
32 * Invokes the endpoint with the given request payload, and possibly returns a response.
33 *
34 * @param request the payload of the request message, may be <code>null</code>
35 * @return the payload of the response message, may be <code>null</code> to indicate no response
36 * @throws Exception if an exception occurs
37 */
38 Source invoke(Source request) throws Exception;
39 }