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/*
 *  The Mana World Server
 *  Copyright 2004 The Mana World Development Team
 *
 *  This file is part of The Mana World.
 *
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#ifndef _TMW_SERVER_MESSAGEHANDLER_
#define _TMW_SERVER_MESSAGEHANDLER_

#include "netcomputer.h"
#include "messagein.h"

/**
 * This class represents the message handler interface. This interface is
 * implemented by classes that mean to handle a certain subset of the incoming
 * messages, after instanciation they will have to register at a connection
 * handler before they will receive messages.
 */
class MessageHandler
{
    public:
        /**
         * Called when a message is received with a message ID that corresponds
         * to an ID this message handler registered to handle.
         *
         * Note: A MessageIn is used here which hasn't been defined yet, but
         *  I imagine that Packet instances would be very simple, and wrapped
         *  by both a MessageIn and a MessageOut class that would implement
         *  methods to convenient parse and build packets transparently.
         */
        void receiveMessage(NetComputer *computer, MessageIn &message);

        void loginMessage(NetComputer *computer, MessageIn &message);
};

#endif