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KualiDocumentEvent |
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| 1.0;1 |
1 | /* | |
2 | * Copyright 2005-2008 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 | |
11 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
12 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
13 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
14 | * limitations under the License. | |
15 | */ | |
16 | package org.kuali.rice.kns.rule.event; | |
17 | ||
18 | import java.util.List; | |
19 | ||
20 | import org.kuali.rice.kns.document.Document; | |
21 | import org.kuali.rice.kns.rule.BusinessRule; | |
22 | ||
23 | /** | |
24 | * Parent interface of all document-related events, which are used to drive the business rules evaluation process. | |
25 | * | |
26 | * | |
27 | */ | |
28 | public interface KualiDocumentEvent { | |
29 | /** | |
30 | * @return Document The document associated with this event | |
31 | */ | |
32 | public Document getDocument(); | |
33 | ||
34 | /** | |
35 | * The name of the event. | |
36 | * | |
37 | * @return String | |
38 | */ | |
39 | public String getName(); | |
40 | ||
41 | /** | |
42 | * A description of the event. | |
43 | * | |
44 | * @return String | |
45 | */ | |
46 | public String getDescription(); | |
47 | ||
48 | ||
49 | /** | |
50 | * @return errorPathPrefix for this event | |
51 | */ | |
52 | public String getErrorPathPrefix(); | |
53 | ||
54 | /** | |
55 | * Returns the interface that classes must implement to receive this event. | |
56 | * | |
57 | * @return | |
58 | */ | |
59 | public Class<? extends BusinessRule> getRuleInterfaceClass(); | |
60 | ||
61 | /** | |
62 | * Validates the event has all the necessary properties. | |
63 | */ | |
64 | public void validate(); | |
65 | ||
66 | /** | |
67 | * Invokes the event handling method on the rule object. | |
68 | * | |
69 | * @param rule | |
70 | * @return | |
71 | */ | |
72 | public boolean invokeRuleMethod(BusinessRule rule); | |
73 | ||
74 | /** | |
75 | * This will return a list of events that are spawned from this event. | |
76 | * | |
77 | * @return | |
78 | */ | |
79 | public List<KualiDocumentEvent> generateEvents(); | |
80 | } |