net.messagevortex.accounting

Interface HeaderVerifier

All Known Subinterfaces:

Accountant

All Known Implementing Classes:

DummyAccountant

public interface HeaderVerifier

Interface for an Accountant to verify the header for further processing.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	verifyHeaderForProcessing(IdentityBlock header) checks the given IdentityBlock for validity of processing.

Method Detail

verifyHeaderForProcessing

int verifyHeaderForProcessing(IdentityBlock header)

checks the given IdentityBlock for validity of processing.

One of the following criteria must be met:

• The identity is known and the serial has not yet reached its replay limit and is not replayed too early
• The identity is not known but has a RequestIdentityBlock
• The IdentityBlock is not known but has a request capability block

Parameters:

header - the header to be verified

Returns:

the maximum nuber of bytes allowed for processing