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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package javax.servlet;
+
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * A filter configuration object used by a servlet container to pass information
+ * to a filter during initialization.
+ *
+ * @see Filter
+ * @since Servlet 2.3
+ */
+public interface FilterConfig {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the filter-name of this filter as defined in the deployment
+ * descriptor.
+ */
+ public String getFilterName();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a reference to the {@link ServletContext} in which the caller is
+ * executing.
+ *
+ * @return {@link ServletContext} object, used by the caller to interact
+ * with its servlet container
+ *
+ * @see ServletContext
+ */
+ public ServletContext getServletContext();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a <code>String</code> containing the value of the named
+ * initialization parameter, or <code>null</code> if the parameter does not
+ * exist.
+ *
+ * @param name
+ * <code>String</code> specifying the name of the initialization
+ * parameter
+ *
+ * @return <code>String</code> containing the value of the initialization
+ * parameter
+ */
+ public String getInitParameter(String name);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the names of the filter's initialization parameters as an
+ * <code>Enumeration</code> of <code>String</code> objects, or an empty
+ * <code>Enumeration</code> if the filter has no initialization parameters.
+ *
+ * @return <code>Enumeration</code> of <code>String</code> objects
+ * containing the names of the filter's initialization parameters
+ */
+ public Enumeration<String> getInitParameterNames();
+
+}