1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.rules;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.document.Document;
19 import org.kuali.rice.krad.maintenance.MaintenanceDocument;
20 import org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.rule.event.ApproveDocumentEvent;
21
22 /**
23 * Rule event interface for implementing business rules against a <code>MaintenanceDocument</code>
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 */
27 public interface MaintenanceDocumentRule {
28
29 /**
30 * Runs all business rules needed prior to saving. This includes both common rules for all maintenance documents,
31 * plus class-specific business rules.
32 *
33 * Will only return false if it fails the isValidForSave() test. Otherwise, it will always return positive
34 * regardless of the outcome of the business rules. However, any error messages resulting from the business rules
35 * will still be populated, for display to the consumer of this service.
36 *
37 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.rule.SaveDocumentRule#processSaveDocument(org.kuali.rice.krad.document.Document)
38 */
39 public abstract boolean processSaveDocument(Document document);
40
41 /**
42 * Runs all business rules needed prior to routing. This includes both common rules for all maintenance documents,
43 * plus class-specific business rules.
44 *
45 * Will return false if any business rule fails, or if the document is in an invalid state, and not routable (see
46 * isDocumentValidForRouting()).
47 *
48 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.rule.RouteDocumentRule#processRouteDocument(org.kuali.rice.krad.document.Document)
49 */
50 public abstract boolean processRouteDocument(Document document);
51
52 /**
53 * Runs all business rules needed prior to approving. This includes both common rules for all maintenance documents,
54 * plus class-specific business rules.
55 *
56 * Will return false if any business rule fails, or if the document is in an invalid state, and not approvable (see
57 * isDocumentValidForApproving()).
58 *
59 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.rule.ApproveDocumentRule#processApproveDocument(org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.rule.event.ApproveDocumentEvent)
60 */
61 public abstract boolean processApproveDocument(ApproveDocumentEvent approveEvent);
62
63 /**
64 * Sets the convenience objects like newAccount and oldAccount, so you have short and easy handles to the new and
65 * old objects contained in the maintenance document.
66 *
67 * It also calls the BusinessObjectBase.refresh(), which will attempt to load all sub-objects from the DB by their
68 * primary keys, if available.
69 *
70 * @param document - the maintenanceDocument being evaluated
71 */
72 public void setupBaseConvenienceObjects(MaintenanceDocument document);
73
74 /**
75 * Should always be overriden if a subclass is created.
76 *
77 * The goal for this is to cast the oldBo and newBo into the correct types of the subclass.
78 */
79 public void setupConvenienceObjects();
80 }