org.xwiki.rendering.block
Interface BlockFilter

All Known Implementing Classes:

PlainTextBlockFilter

public interface BlockFilter

Filter provided block into one or more block.

The block filter is generally called for each block in a block list and is asked to return a filtered version of the provided block. This means:

• an empty list if the block as to be removed
• the block itself in a list if the filter does not have anything particular to filter on it
• or even a list of new block to replace the provided block

Since:

1.8RC2

Version:

$Id$

Method Summary

List<Block>

filter(Block block) Filter provided block into zero or more block.

Method Detail

filter

List<Block> filter(Block block)

Filter provided block into zero or more block.

Parameters:

block - the block to filter.

Returns:

should never be null. The filtered blocks or empty list.