1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 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.
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9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.ken.service;
17
18
19 /**
20 * This class is responsible for the job that will actually resolve which recipients receive a notification for specific endpoints.
21 * This service will be responsible for creating NotificationDeliveryMessage object instances to be used by a later process that actually
22 * delivers the messages.
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 */
25 public interface NotificationMessageDeliveryResolverService {
26 /**
27 * This service method is responsible for retrieving all unprocessed notifications that have sendDateTimes either equal to or before the
28 * current time, and resolving their recipient lists so that proper NotificationMessageDelivery records can be created for them.
29 * This service is to be run periodically in a separate thread, as a daemon process.
30 * @return int the number of resolved messages
31 */
32 public ProcessingResult resolveNotificationMessageDeliveries();
33 }