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1   /**
2    * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
3    *
4    * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    *
8    * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9    *
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.postprocessor;
17  
18  import java.util.List;
19  
20  
21  
22  /**
23   * Hook for applications to perform logic due to workflow events from the engine.
24   * 
25   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26   */
27  public interface PostProcessor {
28  
29  	/**
30  	 * Executed whenever the status of the document changes.
31  	 * 
32  	 * @return ProcessDocReport indicating if the status change succeeded
33  	 */
34      public ProcessDocReport doRouteStatusChange(DocumentRouteStatusChange statusChangeEvent) throws Exception;
35      
36      /**
37  	 * Executed whenever the document transitions from one node to another.
38  	 * 
39  	 * @return ProcessDocReport indicating if the node transition succeeded
40  	 */
41      public ProcessDocReport doRouteLevelChange(DocumentRouteLevelChange levelChangeEvent) throws Exception;
42      
43      /**
44  	 * Executed whenever a deletion of the document is required.
45  	 * 
46  	 * @return ProcessDocReport indicating if the deletion should be permitted to occur or not
47  	 */
48      public ProcessDocReport doDeleteRouteHeader(DeleteEvent event) throws Exception;
49      
50      /**
51       * Executed whenever an action is taken against the document.
52       * 
53       * @return ProcessDocReport indicating whether or not the action should succeed
54       */
55      public ProcessDocReport doActionTaken(ActionTakenEvent event) throws Exception;
56      
57      /**
58       * Executed prior to processing by the workflow engine.
59       *
60       * @return ProcessDocReport indicating whether or not the document processing should be allowed to proceed
61       */
62      public ProcessDocReport beforeProcess(BeforeProcessEvent processEvent) throws Exception;
63  
64      /**
65       * Executed after processing by the workflow engine has completed.
66       *
67       * @return ProcessDocReport indicating whether or not the document was successfully processed
68       */
69      public ProcessDocReport afterProcess(AfterProcessEvent processEvent) throws Exception;
70      
71      /**
72       * Executed prior to document locking in the workflow engine.  This method returns a List of document
73       * ids to lock prior to execution of the document in the workflow engine.  If the engine processing is
74       * going to result in updates to any other documents, they should be locked at the beginning of the engine
75       * processing transaction.  This method facilitates that.
76       * 
77       * <p>Note that, by default, the id of the document that is being processed by the engine is always
78       * locked.  So there is no need to return that document id in the list of document ids to lock.
79       * 
80       * @return a List of document ids to lock prior to execution of the workflow engine
81       */
82      public List<String> getDocumentIdsToLock(DocumentLockingEvent lockingEvent) throws Exception;
83      
84  }