001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.kew.validation;
017    
018    import org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute;
019    
020    /**
021     * Service which mediates RuleValidationAttribute lookup and invocation.
022     * Determines appropriate (possibly remote) {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService} endpoint and
023     * returns a wrapper which delegates to it.
024     *
025     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute
026     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService
027     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
028     */
029    public interface RuleValidationAttributeResolver {
030        /**
031             * Resolves the RuleValidationAttribute by name, possibly resulting in delegation over the KSB.
032             *
033             * @return a RuleValidationAttribute suitable (only) for invocation of #validate
034             */
035            public RuleValidationAttribute resolveRuleValidationAttribute(String attributeName, String applicationId) throws Exception;
036    }