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. 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.krad.document; 17 18 import org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.postprocessor.ActionTakenEvent; 19 import org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.postprocessor.DocumentRouteLevelChange; 20 import org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.postprocessor.DocumentRouteStatusChange; 21 import org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.Person; 22 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.AdHocRoutePerson; 23 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.AdHocRouteWorkgroup; 24 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.DocumentHeader; 25 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.Note; 26 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.PersistableBusinessObject; 27 import org.kuali.rice.krad.document.authorization.PessimisticLock; 28 import org.kuali.rice.krad.exception.ValidationException; 29 import org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.rule.event.KualiDocumentEvent; 30 import org.kuali.rice.krad.service.DocumentSerializerService; 31 import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.NoteType; 32 import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.documentserializer.PropertySerializabilityEvaluator; 33 import org.kuali.rice.krad.workflow.KualiDocumentXmlMaterializer; 34 35 import java.util.List; 36 import java.util.Map; 37 38 39 /** 40 * This is the Document interface. All entities that are regarded as "eDocs" in the system, including Maintenance documents and 41 * Transaction Processing documents should implement this interface as it defines methods that are necessary to interact with the 42 * underlying frameworks and components (i.e. notes, attachments, workflow, etc). 43 * 44 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org) 45 */ 46 public interface Document extends PersistableBusinessObject { 47 48 /** 49 * This retrieves the standard <code>DocumentHeader</code> object, which contains standard meta-data about a document. 50 * 51 * @return document header since all docs will have a document header 52 */ 53 public DocumentHeader getDocumentHeader(); 54 55 /** 56 * Sets the associated <code>DocumentHeader</code> for this document. 57 * 58 * @param documentHeader 59 */ 60 public void setDocumentHeader(DocumentHeader documentHeader); 61 62 /** 63 * All documents have a document header id. This is the quick accessor to that unique identifier and should return the same 64 * value as documentHeader.getDocumentHeaderId(). 65 * 66 * @return doc header id 67 */ 68 public String getDocumentNumber(); 69 70 /** 71 * setter for document header id 72 * 73 * @param documentHeaderId 74 */ 75 public void setDocumentNumber(String documentHeaderId); 76 77 /** 78 * This is the method to integrate with workflow, where we will actually populate the workflow defined data structure(s) so that 79 * workflow can routed based on this data. This method is responsible for passing over the proper Kuali (client system) data 80 * that will be used by workflow to determine how the document is actually routed. 81 */ 82 public void populateDocumentForRouting(); 83 84 /** 85 * This is a method where we can get the xml of a document that the workflow system will use to base it's routing and search 86 * attributes on. 87 * 88 * @return the document serialized to an xml string 89 */ 90 public String serializeDocumentToXml(); 91 92 /** 93 * This method is used to get the xml that should be used in a Route Report. In it's default implementation this will call the 94 * methods prepareForSave() and populateDocumentForRouting(). 95 */ 96 public String getXmlForRouteReport(); 97 98 /** 99 * method to integrate with workflow, where we will actually handle the transitions of levels for documents 100 */ 101 public void doRouteLevelChange(DocumentRouteLevelChange levelChangeEvent); 102 103 /** 104 * method to integrate with workflow where we will be able to perform logic for an action taken being performed on a document 105 */ 106 public void doActionTaken(ActionTakenEvent event); 107 108 /** 109 * This method will be called after the Workflow engine has completely finished processing a document. 110 * 111 * @param successfullyProcessed - true if the document was processed successfully, false otherwise 112 */ 113 public void afterWorkflowEngineProcess(boolean successfullyProcessed); 114 115 /** 116 * This method will be called before the Workflow engine has begun processing a document. 117 */ 118 public void beforeWorkflowEngineProcess(); 119 120 /** 121 * This method will be called before the Workflow engine has begun processing a document. 122 */ 123 public List<String> getWorkflowEngineDocumentIdsToLock(); 124 125 /** 126 * Getter method to get the document title as it will appear in and be searchable in workflow. 127 */ 128 public String getDocumentTitle(); 129 130 /** 131 * getter method to get the list of ad hoc route persons associated with a document at a point in time, this list is only valid 132 * for a given users version of a document as this state is only persisted in workflow itself when someone takes an action on a 133 * document 134 */ 135 public List<AdHocRoutePerson> getAdHocRoutePersons(); 136 137 /** 138 * getter method to get the list of ad hoc route workgroups associated with a document at a point in time, this list is only 139 * valid for a given users version of a document as this state is only persisted in workflow itself when someone takes an action 140 * on a document 141 */ 142 public List<AdHocRouteWorkgroup> getAdHocRouteWorkgroups(); 143 144 /** 145 * setter method to set the list of ad hoc route persons associated with a document at a point in time, this list is only valid 146 * for a given users version of a document as this state is only persisted in workflow itself when someone takes an action on a 147 * document 148 * 149 * @param adHocRoutePersons 150 */ 151 public void setAdHocRoutePersons(List<AdHocRoutePerson> adHocRoutePersons); 152 153 /** 154 * setter method to set the list of ad hoc route workgroups associated with a document at a point in time, this list is only 155 * valid for a given users version of a document as this state is only persisted in workflow itself when someone takes an action 156 * on a document 157 * 158 * @param adHocRouteWorkgroups 159 */ 160 public void setAdHocRouteWorkgroups(List<AdHocRouteWorkgroup> adHocRouteWorkgroups); 161 162 /** 163 * This method provides a hook that will be called before the document is saved. This method is useful for applying document 164 * level data to children. For example, if someone changes data at the document level, and that data needs to be propagated to 165 * child objects or child lists of objects, you can use this method to update the child object or iterate through the list of 166 * child objects and apply the document level data to them. Any document that follows this paradigm will need to make use of 167 * this method to apply all of those changes. 168 */ 169 public void prepareForSave(); 170 171 /** 172 * Sends document off to the rules engine to verify business rules. 173 * 174 * @param event - indicates which document event was requested 175 * @throws ValidationException - containing the MessageMap from the validation session. 176 */ 177 public void validateBusinessRules(KualiDocumentEvent event); 178 179 /** 180 * Do any work on the document that requires the KualiDocumentEvent before the save. 181 * 182 * @param event - indicates which document event was requested 183 */ 184 public void prepareForSave(KualiDocumentEvent event); 185 186 /** 187 * Do any work on the document after the save. 188 * 189 * @param event - indicates which document event was requested 190 */ 191 public void postProcessSave(KualiDocumentEvent event); 192 193 /** 194 * This method provides a hook that will be called after a document is retrieved, but before it is returned from the 195 * DocumentService. 196 */ 197 public void processAfterRetrieve(); 198 199 /** 200 * This method returns whether or not this document can be copied. 201 * 202 * @return True if it can be copied, false if not. 203 */ 204 public boolean getAllowsCopy(); 205 206 /** 207 * Generate any necessary events required during the save event generation 208 * 209 * @return a list of document events that were triggered by the save event 210 */ 211 public List<KualiDocumentEvent> generateSaveEvents(); 212 213 /** 214 * Handle the doRouteStatusChange event from the post processor 215 * 216 */ 217 public void doRouteStatusChange(DocumentRouteStatusChange statusChangeEvent); 218 219 /** 220 * Returns the note type which should be used for notes associated with this document. 221 * This method should never return null. 222 * 223 * @return the note type supported by this document, this value should never be null 224 */ 225 public NoteType getNoteType(); 226 227 /** 228 * Return the target PersistableBusinessObject that notes associated with this document should be attached to. 229 * In general, this method should never return null. However, it is permissible that it will return a 230 * business object which has not been persisted yet (and therefore does not have it's unique object id 231 * established). This is only valid in cases where the note type is {@link NoteType#BUSINESS_OBJECT}. 232 * 233 * In these cases it's the responsibility for implementers of the Document interface to handle storing transient 234 * copies of the document notes (in XML or otherwise) until the underlying note target has been persisted and can be attached 235 * to the document's notes via it's object id. 236 * 237 * @return the PersistableBusinessObject with which notes on this document should be associated 238 */ 239 public PersistableBusinessObject getNoteTarget(); 240 241 /** 242 * Adds the given Note to the document's list of Notes. 243 * 244 * @param note the Note to add, must be non-null 245 */ 246 public void addNote(Note note); 247 248 /** 249 * Returns a mutable list of all notes on the document. 250 * 251 * @return the list of notes associated with this document, if this document has no notes then an empty list will be returned 252 */ 253 public List<Note> getNotes(); 254 255 /** 256 * Sets the document's list of notes to the given list. 257 * 258 * @param notes the list of notes to set on the document, must be non-null 259 */ 260 public void setNotes(List<Note> notes); 261 262 /** 263 * Retrieves the note at the given index. 264 * 265 * @param index the zero-based index of the note to retrieve 266 * @return the note located at the given index 267 * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if the index is out of range 268 */ 269 public Note getNote(int index); 270 271 /** 272 * Removes the given note from the document's list of notes. 273 * 274 * @param note the note to remove from the document's list of notes, must be non-null 275 * @return true if the note was successfully removed, false if the list did not contain the given note 276 */ 277 public boolean removeNote(Note note); 278 279 /** 280 * This method gets a list of the {@link PessimisticLock} objects associated with this document 281 * 282 */ 283 public List<PessimisticLock> getPessimisticLocks(); 284 285 /** 286 * This method updates the list of {@link PessimisticLock} objects on the document if changes could 287 * have been made 288 */ 289 public void refreshPessimisticLocks(); 290 291 /** 292 * This method adds a new {@link PessimisticLock} to the document 293 * 294 * NOTE: LOCKS ADDED VIA THIS METHOD WILL NOT BE SAVED WITH THE DOCUMENT 295 * 296 * @param lock - the lock to add to the document 297 */ 298 public void addPessimisticLock(PessimisticLock lock); 299 300 /** 301 * This is a method that is used by Kuali Pessimistic Locking to get the names (method to call values) 302 * of the {@link KualiDocumentActionBase} methods that should release locks 303 * 304 * @return the list of method names of an action that should clear locks for the current user 305 */ 306 public List<String> getLockClearningMethodNames(); 307 /** 308 * Returns an evaluator object that determines whether a given property relative to the root object ({@link #wrapDocumentWithMetadataForXmlSerialization()} 309 * is serializable during the document serialization process. 310 * 311 * @return a fully initialized evaluator object, ready to be used for workflow routing 312 * 313 * @see DocumentSerializerService 314 * @see #wrapDocumentWithMetadataForXmlSerialization() 315 */ 316 317 public String getBasePathToDocumentDuringSerialization(); 318 319 /** 320 * Returns an evaluator object that determines whether a given property relative to the root object ({@link #wrapDocumentWithMetadataForXmlSerialization()} 321 * is serializable during the document serialization process. 322 * 323 * @return a fully initialized evaluator object, ready to be used for workflow routing 324 * 325 * @see DocumentSerializerService 326 * @see #wrapDocumentWithMetadataForXmlSerialization() 327 */ 328 public PropertySerializabilityEvaluator getDocumentPropertySerizabilityEvaluator(); 329 330 /** 331 * This method will return the root object to be serialized for workflow routing. If necessary, this method will wrap this document object with a wrapper (i.e. contains a reference back to this document). This 332 * wrapper may also contain references to additional objects that provide metadata useful to the workflow engine. 333 * 334 * If no wrappers are necessary, then this object may return "this" 335 * 336 * @return a wrapper object (most likely containing a reference to "this"), or "this" itself. 337 * @see KualiDocumentXmlMaterializer 338 */ 339 public Object wrapDocumentWithMetadataForXmlSerialization(); 340 341 /** 342 * This method returns whether or not this document supports custom lock descriptors for pessimistic locking. 343 * 344 * @return True if the document can generate custom lock descriptors, false otherwise. 345 * @see #getCustomLockDescriptor(Map, Person) 346 */ 347 public boolean useCustomLockDescriptors(); 348 349 /** 350 * Generates a custom lock descriptor for pessimistic locking. This method should not be called unless {@link #useCustomLockDescriptors()} returns true. 351 * 352 * @param user The user trying to establish the lock. 353 * @return A String representing the lock descriptor. 354 * @see #useCustomLockDescriptors() 355 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.service.PessimisticLockService 356 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.service.impl.PessimisticLockServiceImpl 357 */ 358 public String getCustomLockDescriptor(Person user); 359 }