MessagePipeline (OpenSAML :: Messaging API 4.1.0 API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

HttpClientMessagePipeline, HttpServletMessagePipeline

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicHttpClientMessagePipeline, BasicHttpServletMessagePipeline, BasicMessagePipeline
```
public interface MessagePipeline
```
Interface representing the basic components of a message processing pipeline.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`MessageDecoder`	`getDecoder()`	Get the message decoder instance.
`MessageEncoder`	`getEncoder()`	Get the message encoder instance.
`MessageHandler`	`getInboundMessageHandler()`	Get the (optional) inbound message handler instance.
`MessageHandler`	`getOutboundPayloadMessageHandler()`	Get the (optional) outbound payload message handler instance.
`MessageHandler`	`getOutboundTransportMessageHandler()`	Get the (optional) outbound transport message handler instance.

- Method Detail
  - getEncoder
```
@Nonnull
MessageEncoder getEncoder()
```
    Get the message encoder instance.
    
    Returns:
    
    the message encoder
  - getDecoder
```
@Nonnull
MessageDecoder getDecoder()
```
    Get the message decoder instance.
    
    Returns:
    
    the message decoder
  - getOutboundPayloadMessageHandler
```
@Nullable
MessageHandler getOutboundPayloadMessageHandler()
```
    Get the (optional) outbound payload message handler instance.
    This is the handler intended to be called on the outbound message context, prior to any message encoding.
    
    Returns:
    
    the outbound message handler, may be null
  - getOutboundTransportMessageHandler
```
@Nullable
MessageHandler getOutboundTransportMessageHandler()
```
    Get the (optional) outbound transport message handler instance.
    This is the handler intended to be called after MessageEncoder.prepareContext(), but before MessageEncoder.encode().
    
    Returns:
    
    the outbound message handler, may be null
  - getInboundMessageHandler
```
MessageHandler getInboundMessageHandler()
```
    Get the (optional) inbound message handler instance.
    
    Returns:
    
    the inbound message handler, may be null