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package org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.util.accesslog;

import org.apache.jmeter.testelement.TestElement;

/**
 * Description:<br>
 * <br>
 * LogParser is the base interface for classes implementing concrete parse
 * logic. For an example of how to use the interface, look at the Tomcat access
 * log parser.
 * <p>
 * The original log parser was written in 2 hours to parse access logs. Since
 * then, the design and implementation has been rewritten from scratch several
 * times to make it more generic and extensible. The first version was hard
 * coded and written over the weekend.
 * <p>
 * 
 * @author Peter Lin<br>
 * @version $Revision: 493789 $ last updated $Date: 2007-01-07 18:10:21 +0000 (Sun, 07 Jan 2007) $ Created
 *          on: Jun 23, 2003<br>
 */

public interface LogParser {

	/**
	 * close the any streams or readers.
	 */
	public void close();

	/**
	 * the method will parse the given number of lines. Pass "-1" to parse the
	 * entire file. If the end of the file is reached without parsing a line, a
	 * 0 is returned. If the method is subsequently called again, it will
	 * restart parsing at the beginning.
	 * 
	 * @param count
	 * @return int
	 */
	public int parseAndConfigure(int count, TestElement el);

	/**
	 * We allow for filters, so that users can simply point to an Access log
	 * without having to clean it up. This makes it significantly easier and
	 * reduces the amount of work. Plus I'm lazy, so going through a log file to
	 * clean it up is a bit tedious. One example of this is using the filter to
	 * exclude any log entry that has a 505 response code.
	 * 
	 * @param filter
	 */
	public void setFilter(Filter filter);

	/**
	 * The method is provided to make it easy to dynamically create new classes
	 * using Class.newInstance(). Then the access log file is set using this
	 * method.
	 * 
	 * @param source
	 */
	public void setSourceFile(String source);
}
