org.springframework.integration.handler
Interface MessageProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExpressionEvaluatingMessageProcessor, MethodInvokingMessageHandler, MethodInvokingMessageProcessor

public interface MessageProcessor

This defines the lowest-level strategy of processing a Message and returning some Object (or null). Implementations will be focused on generic concerns, such as invoking a method, running a script, or evaluating an expression.

Higher level MessageHandler implementations can delegate to these processors for such functionality, but it is the responsibility of each handler type to add the semantics such as routing, splitting, transforming, etc.

In some cases the return value might be a Message itself, but it does not need to be. It is the responsibility of the caller to determine how to treat the return value. That may require creating a Message or even creating multiple Messages from that value.

This strategy and its various implementations are considered part of the internal "support" API, intended for use by Spring Integration's various message-handling components. As such, it is subject to change.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Mark Fisher

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

processMessage(Message<?> message) Process the Message and return a value (or null).

Method Detail

processMessage

java.lang.Object processMessage(Message<?> message)

Process the Message and return a value (or null).