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     *
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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.
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015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.ken.deliverer;
017    
018    import org.kuali.rice.ken.bo.NotificationMessageDelivery;
019    import org.kuali.rice.ken.exception.NotificationAutoRemoveException;
020    import org.kuali.rice.ken.exception.NotificationMessageDeliveryException;
021    import org.kuali.rice.ken.exception.NotificationMessageDismissalException;
022    
023    /**
024     * This class represents the different types of Notification Delivery Types that the system can handle.  
025     * For example, an instance of delivery type could be "ActionList" or "Email" or "SMS".  Any deliverer implementation 
026     * adhering to this interface can be plugged into the system and will be automatically available for use.
027     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
028     */
029    public interface NotificationMessageDeliverer {
030        /**
031         * This method is responsible for delivering the passed in messageDelivery record.
032         * @param messageDelivery The messageDelivery to process
033         * @throws NotificationMessageDeliveryException
034         */
035        public void deliverMessage(NotificationMessageDelivery messageDelivery) throws NotificationMessageDeliveryException;
036        
037        /**
038         * This method handles auto removing a message delivery from a person's list of notifications.
039         * @param messageDelivery The messageDelivery to auto remove
040         * @throws NotificationAutoRemoveException
041         */
042        public void autoRemoveMessageDelivery(NotificationMessageDelivery messageDelivery) throws NotificationAutoRemoveException;
043        
044        /**
045         * This method dismisses/removes the NotificationMessageDelivery so that it is no longer being presented to the user
046         * via this deliverer.  Note, whether this action is meaningful is dependent on the deliverer implementation.  If the
047         * deliverer cannot control the presentation of the message, then this method need not do anything. 
048         * @param messageDelivery the messageDelivery to dismiss
049         * @param the user that caused the dismissal; in the case of end-user actions, this will most likely be the user to
050         *        which the message was delivered (user recipient in the NotificationMessageDelivery object)
051         * @param cause the reason the message was dismissed
052         */
053        public void dismissMessageDelivery(NotificationMessageDelivery messageDelivery, String user, String cause) throws NotificationMessageDismissalException;
054    }