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package com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit;

import java.io.Serializable;

import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage;

/**
 * This class is notified when AJAX calls are made, and has the ability to influence these calls.
 * For instance, it can turn asynchronous AJAX calls into synchronous AJAX calls, making test code
 * deterministic and avoiding calls to <tt>Thread.sleep()</tt>.
 *
 * @version $Revision: 5660 $
 * @author Marc Guillemot
 */
public class AjaxController implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 2170842485774504546L;

    /**
     * Gets notified of an AJAX call to determine how it should be processed.
     * @param page the page the request comes from
     * @param request the request that should be performed
     * @param async indicates if the request should originally be asynchron
     * @return if the call should be synchron or not; here just like the original call
     */
    public boolean processSynchron(final HtmlPage page, final WebRequest request, final boolean async) {
        return !async;
    }

}
