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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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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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.ken.deliverer;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.ken.bo.NotificationMessageDelivery;
19 import org.kuali.rice.ken.exception.NotificationAutoRemoveException;
20 import org.kuali.rice.ken.exception.NotificationMessageDeliveryException;
21 import org.kuali.rice.ken.exception.NotificationMessageDismissalException;
22
23 /**
24 * This class represents the different types of Notification Delivery Types that the system can handle.
25 * For example, an instance of delivery type could be "ActionList" or "Email" or "SMS". Any deliverer implementation
26 * adhering to this interface can be plugged into the system and will be automatically available for use.
27 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
28 */
29 public interface NotificationMessageDeliverer {
30 /**
31 * This method is responsible for delivering the passed in messageDelivery record.
32 * @param messageDelivery The messageDelivery to process
33 * @throws NotificationMessageDeliveryException
34 */
35 public void deliverMessage(NotificationMessageDelivery messageDelivery) throws NotificationMessageDeliveryException;
36
37 /**
38 * This method handles auto removing a message delivery from a person's list of notifications.
39 * @param messageDelivery The messageDelivery to auto remove
40 * @throws NotificationAutoRemoveException
41 */
42 public void autoRemoveMessageDelivery(NotificationMessageDelivery messageDelivery) throws NotificationAutoRemoveException;
43
44 /**
45 * This method dismisses/removes the NotificationMessageDelivery so that it is no longer being presented to the user
46 * via this deliverer. Note, whether this action is meaningful is dependent on the deliverer implementation. If the
47 * deliverer cannot control the presentation of the message, then this method need not do anything.
48 * @param messageDelivery the messageDelivery to dismiss
49 * @param the user that caused the dismissal; in the case of end-user actions, this will most likely be the user to
50 * which the message was delivered (user recipient in the NotificationMessageDelivery object)
51 * @param cause the reason the message was dismissed
52 */
53 public void dismissMessageDelivery(NotificationMessageDelivery messageDelivery, String user, String cause) throws NotificationMessageDismissalException;
54 }